Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive

2003 TJ58

compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 27 May 2019

--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: 44.1522 AU
orbital period P: 293.379 yr
(= 107158.6 d)
eccentricity e: 0.08281
perihelion distance q: 40.4959 AU
aphelion distance Q: 47.8085 AU
inclination i: 0.95365°
argument of perihelion ω: 9.2557°
ascending node Ω: 37.0908°
mean anomaly M: 40.5173°
perihelion passage TP: 1986 Apr 19.5
Epoch: 2019 Apr 27
data arc: 2003-2007 (47 obs.)
Earth MOID: 39.5053 AU
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: 5.923
Neptune Tisserand invariant TN:3.096 [*D]


orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: 3834 ± 50 km [G19b]
separation/primary radius as/rp:120 [*D]
separation/Hill radius as/rH:0.019 [*D]
orbital period Ps: 137.682 ± 0.034 d [G19b]
eccentricity es: 0.5162 ± 0.0083 [G19b]
inclination is:39.3° ± 1.9° [G19b]
ascending node Ωs:198.6° ± 3.4° [G19b]
argument of pericenter ωs:85.01° ± 0.74° [G19b]
mean anomaly M:58.3° ± 1.9° [G19b]
Epoch:2007 Jul 18.5
normalized ang. mom. αL: ?

other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: 7.4 [MPC]
7.448 ± 0.024 [G09a]
slope parameter G: (0.15) [*A]
effective diameter dE: 83 km [*D]
geometric albedo: 0.285 ± 0.125 [G09a]
color index U-B: ?
color index B-V: ?
taxonomic type: ?
mass m: 2.36x1017 ± 9.2x1015 kg [G19b]
density ρ: (1 ± 1/0.5 g/cm3) [*A]
Hill radius rH: 210000 km [*D]

other data, primary:
diameter dp: 65 ± 15 km [G09a]
rotation period RPp: ?
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: ?
pole direction Β, λ: ? , ?


other data, secondary:
diameter ds: 51 ± 12 km [*D]
diameter ratio ds/dp: 0.787 ± 0.011 [G09a]
component mag. difference ΔM: 0.519 ± 0.031 [G09a]
rotation period RPs: ?

-- 2003 TJ58 --discovery and notes:

Primary discovered 2003 Oct 03 from Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii, USA by ?.

Companion discovered 2006 Nov 22 using Hubble Space Telescope observations from Hubble Space Telescope. Announced 2007 Mar 14.

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