(87269) 2000 OO67

Template:Mp (provisional designation Template:Mp) is a trans-Neptunian object, approximately Template:Convert in diameter, on a highly eccentric orbit in the outermost region of the Solar System. It was discovered by astronomers at the Chilean Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory on 29 July 2000.

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Celestia distant object orbits

Description

At aphelion it is over 1,000 AU from the Sun and, with a perihelion of 21 AU, almost crosses the orbit of Uranus at closest approach. Astronomers with the Deep Ecliptic Survey classify it as a centaur rather than a trans-Neptunian object. Template:Mp came to perihelion in April 2005. Both Template:Mp and Template:Mpl- are calculated to take longer than Sedna to orbit the Sun using either heliocentric coordinates or barycentric coordinates.

Comparison

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The orbits of Template:Dp, Template:Mpl, Leleākūhonua, and other very distant objects along with the predicted orbit of Planet Nine. The three sednoids (pink) along with the red-colored extreme trans-Neptunian object (eTNO) orbits are suspected to be aligned with the hypothetical Planet Nine while the blue-colored eTNO orbits are anti-aligned. The highly elongated orbits colored brown include centaurs and damocloids with large aphelion distances over 200 AU.

See also

• Template:Mpl
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• TAU (spacecraft) (probe designed to go 1000 AU in 50 years)
• List of Solar System objects by greatest aphelion

External links

• List Of Centaurs and Scattered-Disk Objects at the Minor Planet Center
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• Template:JPL small body

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