A trans-Neptunian object (TNO), also written transneptunian object, is any minor planet in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater average distance...
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trans-Neptunian object is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) in mean-motion orbital resonance with Neptune. The orbital periods of the resonant objects are...
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An extreme trans-Neptunian object (ETNO) is a trans-Neptunian object orbiting the Sun well beyond Neptune (30 AU) in the outermost region of the Solar...
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This is a list of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), which are minor planets in the Solar System that orbit the Sun at a greater distance on average than...
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Sedna (dwarf planet) (redirect from Trans-Neptunian object 2003 VB12)
reddish-colored tholins, a chemical makeup similar to those of some other trans-Neptunian objects. Within the range of uncertainties, it is tied with the dwarf planet...
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Planets beyond Neptune (redirect from U (trans-Neptunian object))
bimodal distribution of the nodal distances of the extreme trans-Neptunian objects: avoiding a trans-Plutonian planet or just plain bias?". Monthly Notices...
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This is a list of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) first observed since 1993 and grouped by the year of principal provisional designation. The...
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Sun, but are currently too far away to be observed by telescope. Trans-Neptunian objects are typically announced publicly months or years after their discovery...
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the classical planets. The name "cubewano" derives from the first trans-Neptunian object (TNO) found after Pluto and Charon: 15760 Albion, which until January...
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Scattered disc (redirect from Scattered disk object)
bodies, which are a subset of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects. The scattered-disc objects (SDOs) have orbital eccentricities ranging as high...
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objects are a dynamical class of minor planets in the outer reaches of the Solar System and belong to the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs)...
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Solar System (section Extreme trans-Neptunian objects)
Sedna (76.2–937 AU) was the first extreme trans-Neptunian object to be discovered. It is a large, reddish object, and it takes ~11,400 years for Sedna to...
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Gonggong (dwarf planet) (redirect from Snow White (scattered disk object))
size to Pluto's moon Charon, making it the fifth-largest known trans-Neptunian object (apart possibly from Charon). It may be sufficiently massive to...
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number of smaller objects of historical or scientific interest, such as comets and near-Earth objects. Many trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) have been discovered;...
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Sednoid (redirect from Inner Oort cloud object)
A sednoid is a trans-Neptunian object with a large semi-major axis and a high perihelion, similar to the orbit of the dwarf planet Sedna. The consensus...
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2012 VP113 (category Extreme trans-Neptunian objects)
2012 VP113, also known by its nickname "Biden", is a trans-Neptunian object of the sednoid population, located in the outermost reaches of the Solar System...
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Minor-planet moon (redirect from Trans-Neptunian moon)
planet Haumea was discovered to have two moons, making it the second trans-Neptunian object after Pluto known to have more than one moon. Additionally, 216...
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Kuiper belt (redirect from Kuiper Belt Object)
Hills cloud or Oort cloud objects, are collectively referred to as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). Pluto is the largest and most massive member of the Kuiper...
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2018 AG37 (category Minor planet object articles (unnumbered))
2018 AG37 is a distant trans-Neptunian object and centaur that was discovered 132.2 ± 1.5 AU (19.78 ± 0.22 billion km) from the Sun, farther than any other...
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Freeman Dyson proposed that trans-Neptunian objects, rather than planets, are the major potential habitat of life in space.[citation needed] Several hundred...
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enters the Solar System without threatening impact with other celestial objects appears in Ross Rocklynne's 1938 short story "The Men and the Mirror"....
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541132 Leleākūhonua (category Extreme trans-Neptunian objects)
(/ˌlɛleɪɑːˌkuːhoʊˈnuːə/) (provisional designation 2015 TG387) is an extreme trans-Neptunian object and sednoid in the outermost part of the Solar System. It was first...
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Planet Nine (category Hypothetical trans-Neptunian objects)
explain the peculiar clustering of orbits for a group of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs), bodies beyond Neptune that orbit the Sun at distances...
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(55565) 2002 AW197 (category Minor planet object articles (numbered))
(provisional designation 2002 AW197) is a classical, non-resonant trans-Neptunian object from the Kuiper belt in the outermost region of the Solar System...
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suggest 600 to 700 km diameter as a speculative upper limit for a trans-Neptunian object to retain substantial pore space.) The zodiac symbols have several...
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28978 Ixion (category Minor planet object articles (numbered))
2001 KX76) is a large trans-Neptunian object and a possible dwarf planet. It is located in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy objects orbiting beyond Neptune...
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Orcus (dwarf planet) (category Minor planet object articles (numbered))
and David Rabinowitz on 17 February 2004. Orcus is a plutino, a trans-Neptunian object that is locked in a 2:3 orbital resonance with the ice giant Neptune...
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Pluto largest of this group) List of trans-Neptunian objects (numbered, excludes comets, see Trans-Neptunian object) NASA Jupiter Press Kit (pdf) McDowell...
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38628 Huya (category Binary trans-Neptunian objects)
provisional designation 2000 EB173) is a binary trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy objects orbiting beyond Neptune in the outer Solar...
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Extraterrestrial sky (section Trans-Neptunian objects)
than first magnitude, and at its closest would rival Canopus. A trans-Neptunian object is any minor planet in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a...
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