2010 BK118
| Discovery[1][2] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | WISE LINEAR (704) |
| Discovery date |
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| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 2010 BK118 |
| Centaur (DES)[3] | |
| Orbital characteristics[4] | |
| Epoch 21 November 2025 (JD 2461000.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 1 | |
| Observation arc | 2282 days (6.25 yr) |
| Aphelion |
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| Perihelion | 6.1357 AU (917.89 Gm) (q) |
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| Eccentricity | 0.98637 (e) |
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| 0.51099° (M) | |
| 0.00010319°/day (n) | |
| Inclination | 143.882° (i) |
| 176.00° (Ω) | |
| 179.26° (ω) | |
| Earth MOID | 5.1306 AU (767.53 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 1.16809 AU (174.744 Gm) |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions |
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| 21[6] | |
| 10.3[4] | |
2010 BK118 (also written 2010 BK118) is a centaur roughly 20–60 km in diameter. It is on a retrograde cometary orbit. It has a barycentric semi-major axis (average distance from the Sun) of ~450 AU.[lower-alpha 1]
2010 BK118 came to perihelion in April 2012 at a distance of 6.1 AU from the Sun (outside the orbit of Jupiter).[4] It has a Jupiter-MOID of 1.2 AU.[4] As of 2026[update], it is 27 AU from the Sun.[6]
It will not be 50 AU from the Sun until 2043. After leaving the planetary region of the Solar System, 2010 BK118 will have a barycentric aphelion of 894 AU with an orbital period of ~8000 years.
| Orbital evolution | |||||||
| Epoch | Barycentric Aphelion (Q) (AU) |
Orbital period yr | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 746 | 7300 | |||||
| 2050 | 792 | 8000 | |||||
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Given the orbital eccentricity of this object, different epochs can generate quite different heliocentric unperturbed two-body best-fit solutions to the semi-major axis and orbital period. For objects at such high eccentricity, the Sun's barycentric coordinates are more stable than heliocentric coordinates. Using JPL Horizons, the barycentric semi-major axis is approximately 450 AU.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Carl Hergenrother. "Recent Discoveries – Sept 17-24, 2010". The Transient Sky. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
- ↑ "MPEC 2010-S36 : 2010 BK118". IAU Minor Planet Center. 2010-09-22. Retrieved 2016-02-04. (K10BB8K)
- ↑ Marc W. Buie. "Orbit Fit and Astrometric record for 10BK118". SwRI (Space Science Department). Retrieved 2016-02-04.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: (2010 BK118)" (last observation: 2013-09-10; arc: 3.61 yr). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
- ↑ "Absolute Magnitude (H)". NASA/JPL. Archived from the original on 2001-03-02. Retrieved 2016-02-04. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 "AstDyS 2010BK118 Ephemerides". Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, Italy. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
- ↑ Horizons output. "Barycentric Osculating Orbital Elements for 2010 BK118". Retrieved 2016-02-04. (Solution using the Solar System Barycenter and barycentric coordinates. Select Ephemeris Type:Elements and Center:@0)
External links
- 2010 BK118 at AstDyS-2, Asteroids—Dynamic Site
- 2010 BK118 at the JPL Small-Body DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 23: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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