Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive
2015 QL14
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated
29 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: |
43.698 AU
|
orbital period P: |
288.87 yr (= 105508 d)
|
eccentricity e: |
0.1146
|
perihelion distance q: |
38.69 AU
|
aphelion distance Q: |
48.705 AU
|
inclination i: |
12.19921°
|
argument of perihelion ω: |
352.38°
|
ascending node Ω: |
26.303°
|
mean anomaly M: |
303.14°
|
perihelion passage TP: |
2063 Nov 07
|
Epoch: |
2018 Mar 23
|
data arc: |
2015-2017
(16 obs.)
|
Earth MOID: |
37.6922 AU
|
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: |
5.747
|
Neptune Tisserand invariant TN: | 3.029 [*D] |
orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: |
52000
km
(separation)
[S18c]
|
separation/primary radius as/rp: | 800 [*E] |
separation/Hill radius as/rH: | 0.11 [*E] |
orbital period Ps: |
2400
d [*E]
|
eccentricity es: |
?
|
normalized ang. mom. αL: |
?
|
|
other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: |
7
[MPC]
|
slope parameter G: |
(0.15) [*A]
|
effective diameter dE: |
175
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: |
450000 km [*E]
|
other data, primary:
diameter dp: |
130
km [*E]
|
rotation period RPp: |
?
|
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: |
?
|
pole direction Β, λ: |
?
,
?
|
other data, secondary:
diameter ds: |
117
km [*E]
|
diameter ratio ds/dp: |
0.9
[*D]
|
component mag. difference ΔM: |
0.2
[S18c]
|
rotation period RPs: |
?
|
|
|
--
2015 QL14
--discovery and notes:
Primary discovered
2015 Aug 16
from
Cerro Tololo Observatory, La Serena, Chile
by
S. S. Sheppard.
Companion discovered
2017 Nov 22
by S. S. Sheppard and C. A. Trujillo
using
adaptive optics telescope
observations from Magellan Telescope.
Announced
2018 Mar 07 [S18c].
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©
2018, 2019
by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified
29 May 2019.
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