Asteroids with Satellites Database--Johnston's Archive

2015 RP280

compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 15 December 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: 45.418 AU
orbital period P: 306.08 yr
(= 111801 d)
eccentricity e: 0.0965
perihelion distance q: 41.035 AU
aphelion distance Q: 49.801 AU
inclination i: 3.4909°
argument of perihelion ω: 44.369°
ascending node Ω: 232.398°
mean anomaly M: 83.61°
perihelion passage TP: 1948 Mar 25
Epoch: 2019 Apr 27
data arc: 2015-2017 (34 obs.)
Earth MOID: 40.0192 AU
Jupiter Tisserand invariant TJ: 5.985
Neptune Tisserand invariant TN:3.10405396085745 [*D]


orbital data, secondary:
semimajor axis as: 5080 ± 90 km (separation) [G19c]
separation/primary radius as/rp:80 [*E]
separation/Hill radius as/rH:0.012 [*E]
orbital period Ps: 86 d [*E]
eccentricity es: ?
normalized ang. mom. αL: ?

other data, system (combined):
absolute mag. H: 7.3 [MPC]
7.7 ± 0.5 [G19c]
slope parameter G: (0.15) [*A]
effective diameter dE: 154 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: 420000 km [*E]

other data, primary:
diameter dp: 123 km [*E]
rotation period RPp: ?
amplitude in mag., rotational ΔM: ?
pole direction Β, λ: ? , ?


other data, secondary:
diameter ds: 93 km [*E]
diameter ratio ds/dp: 0.76 [*D]
component mag. difference ΔM: 0.6 [G19c]
rotation period RPs: ?

-- 2015 RP280 --discovery and notes:

Primary discovered 2015 Sep 09 from Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii, USA by Solar System Origins Legacy Survey (A. H. Parker et al.). Linked to prediscovery observations from 2015 Jun 23.

Companion discovered 2019 Oct 06 by Solar System Origins Legacy Survey (A. H. Parker et al.) using Hubble Space Telescope observations from Hubble Space Telescope. Announced 2019 Nov 05 [G19c].

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