(84922) 2003 VS2

Infobox Planet
bgcolour=#FFFFC0
name=mp|(84922) 2003 VS|2
discovery=yes
discovery_ref=
discoverer= NEAT
discovered=November 14, 2003
mp_name=mp|(84922) 2003 VS|2
alt_names="none"
mp_category=Plutinocite web
date=2006 Dec. 21
title=MPEC 2006-X45 : Distant Minor Planets
publisher=Minor Planet Center & Tamkin Foundation Computer Network
url=http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpec/K06/K06X45.html
accessdate=2008-07-23]
orbit_ref = cite web
author=Marc W. Buie
date=2008/02/05
title=Orbit Fit and Astrometric record for 84922
publisher=SwRI (Space Science Department)
url=http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~buie/kbo/astrom/84922.html
accessdate=2008-07-23] cite web
date=2008-02-05 last obs
title=JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 84922 (2003 VS2)
url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=84922
accessdate=2008-07-23]
epoch=December 31, 2006 (JD 2454100.5)
semimajor=5874.042 Gm (39.266 AU)
perihelion=5449.350 Gm (36.427 AU)
aphelion=6298.735 Gm (42.104 AU)
eccentricity=0.072
period=89870.237 d (246.05 a)
inclination=14.798°
asc_node=302.682°
arg_peri=112.586°
mean_anomaly=3.987°
avg_speed=4.75 km/s
physical_characteristics=yes
dimensions=725±200 kmcite web
title=Physical Properties of Kuiper Belt and Centaur Objects: Constraints from Spitzer Space Telescope
author=John Stansberry, Will Grundy, Mike Brown, Dale Cruikshank, John Spencer, David Trilling, Jean-Luc Margot
work=University of Arizona, Lowell Observatory, California Institute of Technology, NASA Ames Research Center, Southwest Research Institute, Cornell University
url=http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0702538v2
year=2007
accessdate=2008-07-25] cite web
date=22 April 2008
title=List of Known Trans-Neptunian Objects
publisher=Johnston's Archive
author=Wm. Robert Johnston
url=http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/tnoslist.html
accessdate=2006-12-14]
radius=362.5 km
mass=2.7e|20? kg
density=2.0? g/cm³
surface_grav=0.1778? m/s²
escape_velocity=0.3362? km/s
sidereal_day=?
spectral_type=?
abs_magnitude=4.0
albedo=0.036–0.106
single_temperature=~44 K

mp|(84922) 2003 VS|2 is a trans-Neptunian object discovered by the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program on November 14, 2003. It is in a 2:3 orbital Resonance with Neptune, placing its categorization as a plutino.

References

External links

* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2003VS2;orb=1;view=Far Orbital simulation] from JPL (Java) / [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi?find_body=1&body_group=sb&sstr=2003VS2 Ephemeris]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3277033.stm Huge rock-ice body circles Sun] (Palomar Photo)