Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive
(303712)
2005 PR21
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated
20 September 2014
--Orbital and physical data--
(See this page for definitions of quantities; source codes in brackets, see this link for full references; *A, *D, and *E indicate assumed, derived, and estimated values, respectively.)
dynamical type, primary:
TNO, Cubewano
orbital data, primary (osculating elements)
[JPL]
:
semimajor axis a: |
44.045 AU
|
orbital period P: |
292.318 yr (= 106769.2 d)
|
eccentricity e: |
0.10138
|
perihelion distance q: |
39.5799 AU
|
aphelion distance Q: |
48.510 AU
|
inclination i: |
1.34656°
|
argument of perihelion ω: |
310.05°
|
ascending node Ω: |
339.1618°
|
mean anomaly M: |
49.18°
|
perihelion passage TP: |
1974 Jun 17
|
Epoch: |
2014 May 23
|
data arc: |
2005-2012
(46 obs.)
|
Earth MOID: |
38.5631 AU
|
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: |
5.905
|
Neptune Tisserand invariant TN: | 3.09 [*D] |
orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: |
3600
± 300 km
(separation)
[G12b]
|
separation/primary radius as/rp: | 32 [*E] |
separation/Hill radius as/rH: | 0.0056 [*E] |
orbital period Ps: |
22
d [*E]
|
eccentricity es: |
?
|
normalized ang. mom. αL: |
?
|
|
other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: |
6.1
[MPC]
|
slope parameter G: |
(0.15) [*A]
|
effective diameter dE: |
265
km [*E]
|
geometric albedo: |
(0.09
) [*A]
|
color index U-B: |
?
|
color index B-V: |
?
|
taxonomic type: |
?
|
mass m: |
?
|
density ρ: |
(1
g/cm3) [*A]
|
Hill radius rH: |
640000 km [*E]
|
other data, primary:
diameter dp: |
227
km [*E]
|
rotation period RPp: |
?
|
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: |
<0.28
[B13a]
|
pole direction Β, λ: |
?
,
?
|
other data, secondary:
diameter ds: |
137
km [*E]
|
diameter ratio ds/dp: |
0.603
[N08d]
|
component mag. difference ΔM: |
1.1
[I8925]
|
rotation period RPs: |
?
|
|
|
--
(303712) 2005 PR21
--discovery and notes:
Primary discovered
2005 Aug 09
from
Cerro Tololo Observatory, La Serena, Chile
by
?.
Permanent number assigned 2011 Nov 10.
Companion discovered
2007 May 20
by K. S. Noll, W. M. Grundy, S. D. Kern, H. F. Levison, and D. C. Stephens
using
Hubble Space Telescope
observations from Hubble Space Telescope.
Announced
2008 Mar 04 [N08d].
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©
2008-2011, 2014
by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified
20 September 2014.
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