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Brown">Michael E. Brown</a></li><li>Terry-Ann Suer<a href="#cite_note-Suer-2">[2]</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;">Discovery date</th><td class="infobox-data">13 November 2005</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#E0CCFF">Designations</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Designation</div></th><td class="infobox-data">(90482) Orcus I<a href="#cite_note-MPC69496-3">[3]</a>: 350 </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;">Pronunciation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈvænθ/</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Provisional_designation_in_astronomy" title="Provisional designation in astronomy">Alternative names</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">S/2005 (90482) 1<a href="#cite_note-jpldata-4">[4]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_adjectivals_and_demonyms_of_astronomical_bodies" title="List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies">Adjectives</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Vanthian</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#E0CCFF"><a href="/wiki/Osculating_orbit" title="Osculating orbit">Orbital characteristics</a><a href="#cite_note-Grundy2019-5">[5]</a>: 67 </th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Epoch_(astronomy)" title="Epoch (astronomy)">Epoch</a> 21.5 September 2006 (<a href="/wiki/Julian_day" title="Julian day">JD</a> 2454000.0)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Semi-major_and_semi-minor_axes" title="Semi-major and semi-minor axes">Semi-major axis</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">8999.8±9.1 <a href="/wiki/Kilometre" title="Kilometre">km</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Orbital_eccentricity" title="Orbital eccentricity">Eccentricity</a></th><td class="infobox-data">0.00091±0.00053</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Orbital_period" title="Orbital period">Orbital period (sidereal)</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">9.539154±0.000020 <a href="/wiki/Day" title="Day">d</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Orbital_inclination" title="Orbital inclination">Inclination</a></th><td class="infobox-data">105.03<a href="/wiki/Degree_(angle)" title="Degree (angle)">°</a>±0.18<a href="/wiki/Degree_(angle)" title="Degree (angle)">°</a> (to <a href="/wiki/Celestial_equator" title="Celestial equator">celestial equator</a>) 90.54°±0.17° (to <a href="/wiki/Ecliptic" title="Ecliptic">ecliptic</a>)<a href="#cite_note-i-ecliptic-6">[a]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Longitude_of_the_ascending_node" title="Longitude of the ascending node">Longitude of ascending node</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">53.49°±0.33°</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Argument_of_periapsis" title="Argument of periapsis">Argument of periapsis</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">274.51°<a href="#cite_note-arg-peri-7">[b]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Natural_satellite" title="Natural satellite">Satellite of</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Orcus_(dwarf_planet)" title="Orcus (dwarf planet)">Orcus</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#E0CCFF">Physical characteristics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Mean_radius_(astronomy)" title="Mean radius (astronomy)">Mean diameter</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">442.5±10.2 km (<a href="/wiki/Occultation" title="Occultation">occultation</a>)<a href="#cite_note-Sickafoose2019-8">[6]</a>: 663  475±75 <a href="/wiki/Kilometre" title="Kilometre">km</a> (<a href="/wiki/Thermal_radiation" title="Thermal radiation">thermal</a>)<a href="#cite_note-Brown2018-9">[7]</a>: 1 <a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 2 </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Mass" title="Mass">Mass</a></th><td class="infobox-data">(8.7±0.8)×1019 kg<a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 4 </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Mean <a href="/wiki/Density" title="Density">density</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">1.9±0.3 g/cm3 (occultation)<a href="#cite_note-occ-density-11">[c]</a> 1.5+1.0 −0.5 g/cm3 (thermal)<a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 4 </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Synodic_rotation_period" class="mw-redirect" title="Synodic rotation period">Synodic rotation period</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Synchronous_rotation" class="mw-redirect" title="Synchronous rotation">synchronous</a><a href="#cite_note-Ortiz2011-12">[9]</a>: 6 <a href="#cite_note-Rabinowitz2014-13">[10]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Albedo" title="Albedo">Albedo</a></th><td class="infobox-data">0.08±0.02<a href="#cite_note-Brown2018-9">[7]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Temperature" title="Temperature">Temperature</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><44 <a href="/wiki/Kelvin" title="Kelvin">K</a><a href="#cite_note-Sickafoose2019-8">[6]</a>: 663 </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Spectral type</div></th><td class="infobox-data">moderately <a href="/wiki/Trans-Neptunian_object#Colors" title="Trans-Neptunian object">red</a><a href="#cite_note-Brown2010-14">[11]</a>: 2702  V–I = 1.03±0.05<a href="#cite_note-Brown2010-14">[11]</a>: 2702 </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Apparent_magnitude" title="Apparent magnitude">Apparent magnitude</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">21.8<a href="#cite_note-Grundy-tnbs-15">[12]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Absolute_magnitude#Solar_System_bodies_(H)" title="Absolute magnitude">Absolute magnitude (H)</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">4.88±0.05<a href="#cite_note-Brown2010-14">[11]</a>: 2702 </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> Vanth (formal designation (90482) Orcus I; <a href="/wiki/Provisional_designation" class="mw-redirect" title="Provisional designation">provisional designation</a> S/2005 (90482) 1) is a <a href="/wiki/Natural_satellite" title="Natural satellite">natural satellite</a> or moon of the large <a href="/wiki/Trans-Neptunian_object" title="Trans-Neptunian object">trans-Neptunian</a> <a href="/wiki/Dwarf_planet" title="Dwarf planet">dwarf planet</a> <a href="/wiki/Orcus_(dwarf_planet)" title="Orcus (dwarf planet)">Orcus</a>. It was discovered by <a href="/wiki/Michael_E._Brown" title="Michael E. Brown">Michael Brown</a> and Terry-Ann Suer using images taken by the <a href="/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope" title="Hubble Space Telescope">Hubble Space Telescope</a> on 13 November 2005. The moon has a diameter of 443 km (275 mi), making it about half the size of Orcus and the third-largest moon of a trans-Neptunian object. Vanth is massive enough that it shifts the <a href="/wiki/Barycenter" class="mw-redirect" title="Barycenter">barycenter</a> of the Orcus–Vanth system outside of Orcus, forming a <a href="/wiki/Binary_system" title="Binary system">binary system</a> in which the two bodies revolve around the barycenter, much like the <a href="/wiki/Pluto" title="Pluto">Pluto</a>–<a href="/wiki/Charon_(moon)" title="Charon (moon)">Charon</a> system. It is hypothesized that both systems formed similarly, most likely by a <a href="/wiki/Impact_event" title="Impact event">giant impact</a> early in the Solar System's history.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a> Compared to Orcus, Vanth has a darker and slightly redder surface that supposedly lacks exposed water ice, resembling primordial <a href="/wiki/Kuiper_belt_object" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuiper belt object">Kuiper belt objects</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2010-14">[11]</a>: 2702  <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discovery">Discovery</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Vanth_(moon)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Discovery">edit</a>]</div> Vanth was discovered in <a href="/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope" title="Hubble Space Telescope">Hubble Space Telescope</a> images taken on 13 November 2005, during <a href="/wiki/Michael_E._Brown" title="Michael E. Brown">Michael Brown</a>'s survey for <a href="/wiki/Natural_satellite" title="Natural satellite">satellites</a> around large <a href="/wiki/Trans-Neptunian_objects" class="mw-redirect" title="Trans-Neptunian objects">trans-Neptunian objects</a> (TNOs) using Hubble's high-resolution <a href="/wiki/Advanced_Camera_for_Surveys" title="Advanced Camera for Surveys">Advanced Camera for Surveys</a>.<a href="#cite_note-IAUC8812-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-HST10545-16">[13]</a> After Brown's Hubble survey concluded in late 2006, he and his colleague Terry-Ann Suer reported their newly discovered TNO satellites to the <a href="/wiki/Central_Bureau_for_Astronomical_Telegrams" title="Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams">Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams</a>, which announced their discovery of Vanth alongside three other TNO satellites on 22 February 2007.<a href="#cite_note-HST10545-16">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-IAUC8812-1">[1]</a> Brown continued observing the Orcus–Vanth system with Hubble in October–December 2006 and November–December 2007 to better determine the moon's orbit.<a href="#cite_note-HST10860-17">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-HST11169-18">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-Grundy-tnbs-15">[12]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Vanth_(moon)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Name">edit</a>]</div> Before Vanth was named, it had the <a href="/wiki/Provisional_designation" class="mw-redirect" title="Provisional designation">provisional designation</a> S/2005 (90482) 1.<a href="#cite_note-jpldata-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[d]</a> On 23 March 2009, Brown asked readers of his <a href="/wiki/Blog" title="Blog">blog</a> to suggest possible names for the satellite, with the best one to be submitted to the <a href="/wiki/International_Astronomical_Union" title="International Astronomical Union">International Astronomical Union</a> (IAU) on 5 April.<a href="#cite_note-MBP-Mar09-19">[16]</a> The name <a href="/wiki/Vanth" title="Vanth">Vanth</a>, the winged <a href="/wiki/Etruscan_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Etruscan mythology">Etruscan</a> <a href="/wiki/Psychopomp" title="Psychopomp">psychopomp</a> who guides the souls of the dead to the underworld, was first suggested by <a href="/wiki/Sonya_Taaffe" title="Sonya Taaffe">Sonya Taaffe</a>—a fiction writer—and became the most popular name among the large pool of suggestions.<a href="#cite_note-MBP-Apr09-20">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-Taaffe-22">[18]</a> Vanth and <a href="/wiki/Persipnei" title="Persipnei">Persipnei</a> were among the few names that both matched the Etruscan origin and <a href="/wiki/Chthonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Chthonic">chthonic</a> theme of Orcus's name, though Brown ultimately chose Vanth because its relationship to Orcus in Etruscan mythology strongly parallels the relationship between <a href="/wiki/Pluto_(mythology)" title="Pluto (mythology)">Pluto</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charon" title="Charon">Charon</a> in <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>.<a href="#cite_note-MBP-Apr09-20">[17]</a> In Etruscan <a href="/wiki/Iconography" title="Iconography">iconography</a>, Vanth is frequently portrayed in the company of <a href="/wiki/Charun" title="Charun">Charun</a> (the Etruscan counterpart of the Greek Charon), which alludes to the similar properties of the <a href="/wiki/Pluto" title="Pluto">Pluto</a> and Orcus systems (the latter being nicknamed the "anti-Pluto" because the <a href="/wiki/Orbital_resonance" title="Orbital resonance">orbital resonance</a> with <a href="/wiki/Neptune" title="Neptune">Neptune</a> keeps it on the opposite side of the Sun from Pluto).<a href="#cite_note-MBP-Apr09-20">[17]</a> Brown quoted Taaffe as saying that if Vanth "accompanies dead souls from the moment of death to the underworld itself, then of course her face is turned always toward Orcus", a reference to the likely synchronous orbit of Vanth about Orcus.<a href="#cite_note-MBP-Apr09-20">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-Taaffe-22">[18]</a> The submission for Vanth's name was assessed and approved by the IAU's Committee for Small Body Nomenclature,<a href="#cite_note-23">[e]</a> in agreement with the <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_naming_conventions#Minor_planets" title="Astronomical naming conventions">naming procedures</a> for minor planets and satellites.<a href="#cite_note-CSBN-MPnames-24">[19]</a> The official naming citation was announced by the <a href="/wiki/Minor_Planet_Center" title="Minor Planet Center">Minor Planet Center</a> in a notice published on 30 March 2010.<a href="#cite_note-MPC69496-3">[3]</a>: 350  <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Observability">Observability</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Vanth_(moon)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Observability">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Visual">Visual</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Vanth_(moon)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Visual">edit</a>]</div> From Earth, Vanth appears very close to Orcus with an <a href="/wiki/Angular_separation" class="mw-redirect" title="Angular separation">angular separation</a> of up to 0.25 <a href="/wiki/Arcsecond" class="mw-redirect" title="Arcsecond">arcseconds</a>. For this reason, Vanth can only be visually resolved in high-resolution imaging, which requires the use of large-<a href="/wiki/Aperture" title="Aperture">aperture</a> <a href="/wiki/Space_telescope" title="Space telescope">space telescopes</a> or <a href="/wiki/Observatory#Ground-based_observatories" title="Observatory">ground-based telescopes</a> aided by <a href="/wiki/Adaptive_optics" title="Adaptive optics">adaptive optics</a> or <a href="/wiki/Interferometry" title="Interferometry">interferometry</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Carry2011-25">[20]</a>: 2  In visible light, Vanth's <a href="/wiki/Apparent_magnitude" title="Apparent magnitude">apparent magnitude</a> is about 22, which is 2.61 <a href="/wiki/Magnitude_(astronomy)" title="Magnitude (astronomy)">magnitudes</a> fainter than Orcus or about 9% of Orcus's brightness.<a href="#cite_note-Grundy-tnbs-15">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-Carry2011-25">[20]</a>: 5  Orcus and Vanth will gradually brighten as the system draws closer to the Sun until perihelion in 2142.<a href="#cite_note-Grundy-tnbs-15">[12]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Occultations">Occultations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Vanth_(moon)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Occultations">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Stellar_occultation" class="mw-redirect" title="Stellar occultation">Stellar occultations</a> are a useful way of directly measuring an object's position, size, and shape, and can be predicted when the object's orbital trajectory is well-known.<a href="#cite_note-Sickafoose2019-8">[6]</a>: 657  The first successful detection of a stellar occultation by Vanth was made by a single observatory in Hokkaido, Japan on 1 March 2014, which detected the occultation lasting 3 seconds.<a href="#cite_note-RASNZ-26">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-JOA2017-3-27">[22]</a>: 16  Because this was only a single detection of the occulted star's <a href="/wiki/Chord_(astronomy)" title="Chord (astronomy)">chord</a> across Vanth, the occultation did not provide a meaningful constraint on Vanth's diameter and shape.<a href="#cite_note-Sickafoose2019-8">[6]</a>: 665  On 7 March 2017, another stellar occultation by Vanth was observed in the Americas and the Pacific Ocean.<a href="#cite_note-Sickafoose2019-8">[6]</a>: 657  Of the five observatories that participated in observing the 2017 occultation by Vanth, two of them made positive detections.<a href="#cite_note-Sickafoose2019-8">[6]</a>: 660  The remaining observatories that did not detect the occultation, alongside the fact that the occulted star was a <a href="/wiki/Double_star" title="Double star">double star</a>, tightly constrained the range of Vanth's possible diameters to 432–453 km (268–281 mi), with the assumption that Vanth had a spherical shape.<a href="#cite_note-Sickafoose2019-8">[6]</a>: 663  The 2017 occultation showed no signs of an <a href="/wiki/Atmosphere" title="Atmosphere">atmosphere</a> on Vanth, which places an upper bound <a href="/wiki/Atmospheric_pressure" title="Atmospheric pressure">pressure</a> of 1–4 <a href="/wiki/Bar_(unit)" title="Bar (unit)">microbars</a> for a potential atmosphere. The 2017 occultation also showed no signs of <a href="/wiki/Ring_system" title="Ring system">rings</a> within 10,000 km (6,200 mi) from Vanth or beyond 8,010 km (4,980 mi) from Orcus.<a href="#cite_note-Sickafoose2019-8">[6]</a>: 657  <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Orbit">Orbit</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Vanth_(moon)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Orbit">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Orcus_Vanth_orbit.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Orcus_Vanth_orbit.png/220px-Orcus_Vanth_orbit.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Orcus_Vanth_orbit.png/330px-Orcus_Vanth_orbit.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Orcus_Vanth_orbit.png/440px-Orcus_Vanth_orbit.png 2x" data-file-width="1734" data-file-height="1656" /></a><figcaption>Diagram of Vanth's orbit as viewed face-on from Earth. Vanth appears to revolve counterclockwise because its orbital north pole is pointed toward Earth's line of sight.</figcaption></figure> Vanth forms a <a href="/wiki/Binary_system" title="Binary system">binary system</a> with Orcus, in which the two bodies revolve around the <a href="/wiki/Barycenter" class="mw-redirect" title="Barycenter">barycenter</a> between them. Orcus and Vanth are separated 9,000 km (5,600 mi) apart from each other's centers and revolve around their barycenter in nearly <a href="/wiki/Circular_orbit" title="Circular orbit">circular orbits</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Orbital_period" title="Orbital period">period</a> of 9.54 days.<a href="#cite_note-Grundy2019-5">[5]</a>: 67 <a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a> Vanth is less massive than Orcus, so it is the secondary component of the binary system and it orbits farther out from the barycenter at an orbital radius of 7,770 km (4,830 mi; 86.3% of the Orcus–Vanth separation distance). The more massive primary component, Orcus, orbits closer to the barycenter at an orbital radius of 1,230 km (760 mi; 13.7% of the separation distance).<a href="#cite_note-barycenter-28">[f]</a><a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 4  Vanth's orbit is <a href="/wiki/Orbital_inclination" title="Orbital inclination">inclined</a> perpendicularly (90°) with respect to the <a href="/wiki/Ecliptic" title="Ecliptic">plane of the Solar System</a>. During the time Vanth was observed (2005–2023), the north pole of its orbit was pointed towards Earth such that Vanth's orbit appeared face-on or pole-on from Earth's perspective.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2010-14">[11]</a>: 2700–2701 <a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 4  The perspective of Vanth's orbital plane shifts very slowly as the Orcus–Vanth system travels along its 247-year orbit around the Sun.<a href="#cite_note-jpldata-4">[4]</a> Because of this slow shift in perspective, astronomers were not able determine Vanth's actual orbital inclination until 2015.<a href="#cite_note-Grundy2019-5">[5]</a>: 67  Vanth's orbit will eventually shift from a face-on to an edge-on perspective by the year 2082, after which the Orcus–Vanth system begins its season of mutual events where Orcus and Vanth take turns <a href="/wiki/Eclipse" title="Eclipse">eclipsing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Planetary_transits_and_occultations" title="Planetary transits and occultations">transiting</a> each other.<a href="#cite_note-Grundy2019-5">[5]</a>: 67  <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin">Origin</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Vanth_(moon)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Origin">edit</a>]</div> The circular orbits and relative component sizes of the Orcus–Vanth system bear similarities to the Pluto–Charon binary system, which led astronomers to suspect that these two systems formed and evolved similarly.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2010-14">[11]</a>: 2705 <a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 5  As hypothesized for Charon, Vanth is believed to be a captured fragment of a large body that <a href="/wiki/Impact_event" title="Impact event">impacted</a> Orcus likely before the outward <a href="/wiki/Planetary_migration" title="Planetary migration">migration</a> of Neptune 700 million years after the <a href="/wiki/Formation_of_the_Solar_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Formation of the Solar System">formation of the Solar System</a> (about 4 billion years ago).<a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 5 <a href="#cite_note-Arakawa2019-29">[23]</a>: 805  <a href="/wiki/Fluid_dynamics" title="Fluid dynamics">Hydrodynamic</a> simulations by researchers Sota Arakawa et al. in 2019 suggested that an impactor traveling close to Orcus's <a href="/wiki/Escape_velocity" title="Escape velocity">escape velocity</a> should impact Orcus at an oblique angle greater than 45° for it to leave a large, intact fragment in orbit around Orcus.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 5 <a href="#cite_note-Arakawa2019-29">[23]</a>: 804  This fragment, which would become Vanth, would initially have an eccentric orbit close to Orcus.<a href="#cite_note-Arakawa2019-29">[23]</a>: 804  Arakawa et al.'s simulations predicted that both Orcus and Vanth should remain molten for at least 10,000 years for <a href="/wiki/Tidal_force" title="Tidal force">tidal interactions</a> to <a href="/wiki/Tidal_locking" title="Tidal locking">tidally lock</a> both components and expand and circularize Vanth's orbit before the present day.<a href="#cite_note-Arakawa2019-29">[23]</a>: 804, 806  Earlier calculations by Michael Brown et al. in 2010 suggested that it took 150–400 million years for both components of the Orcus–Vanth system to migrate out to their current separation distance and become tidally locked.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2010-14">[11]</a>: 2704  An impact origin of the Orcus and Vanth system would imply that both components should have similar densities, surface compositions, and colors.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2010-14">[11]</a>: 2702  While Vanth does have a similar density to Orcus (albeit with large uncertainty),<a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 5  Vanth appears redder and tentative spectroscopic studies have suggested that it has low amounts of exposed water ice, which may make it resemble primordial <a href="/wiki/Kuiper_belt_object" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuiper belt object">Kuiper belt objects</a> more than Orcus, whose surface has a neutral (gray) color and is abundant in exposed water ice by contrast.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2010-14">[11]</a>: 2702 <a href="#cite_note-Carry2011-25">[20]</a>: 5  While the uncertain nature of Orcus and Vanth's compositional difference does not necessarily refute the impact hypothesis, it does lend plausibility to alternative hypotheses for Vanth's origin, such as the <a href="/wiki/Gravitational_capture" title="Gravitational capture">gravitational capture</a> of a Kuiper belt object.<a href="#cite_note-Carry2011-25">[20]</a>: 5  However, these alternative hypotheses have since fallen out of favor as Vanth's physical properties and formation mechanisms of dwarf planet satellites became better understood.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2018-9">[7]</a>: 1 <a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Physical_characteristics">Physical characteristics</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Vanth_(moon)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Physical characteristics">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Size,_mass,_and_density">Size, mass, and density</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Vanth_(moon)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Size, mass, and density">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Binary_dwarf_planets_scale_comparison.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Binary_dwarf_planets_scale_comparison.png/440px-Binary_dwarf_planets_scale_comparison.png" decoding="async" width="440" height="262" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Binary_dwarf_planets_scale_comparison.png/660px-Binary_dwarf_planets_scale_comparison.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Binary_dwarf_planets_scale_comparison.png/880px-Binary_dwarf_planets_scale_comparison.png 2x" data-file-width="4200" data-file-height="2500" /></a><figcaption>Diagram of the three largest binary trans-Neptunian dwarf planets and their satellites with true colors, diameters, and distances to scale. Each system's barycenter position marked is in red crosshairs.</figcaption></figure> As of 2023<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vanth_(moon)&action=edit">[update]</a>, the most accurate estimate for Vanth's diameter is 443 ± 10 km (275 ± 6 mi), determined from a stellar occultation in 2017.<a href="#cite_note-Sickafoose2019-8">[6]</a>: 663, 665 <a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 2  This estimate is consistent with the previous estimate of 475 ± 75 km (295 ± 47 mi) from <a href="/wiki/Thermal_radiation" title="Thermal radiation">thermal emission</a> measurements by the <a href="/wiki/Atacama_Large_Millimeter_Array" title="Atacama Large Millimeter Array">Atacama Large Millimeter Array</a> (ALMA) in 2016.<a href="#cite_note-Sickafoose2019-8">[6]</a>: 664 <a href="#cite_note-Brown2018-9">[7]</a>: 2  Both estimates show that Vanth is roughly half of Orcus's diameter and is the third-largest known moon of a trans-Neptunian object, after Charon and <a href="/wiki/Dysnomia_(moon)" title="Dysnomia (moon)">Dysnomia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2018-9">[7]</a>: 3 <a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 2  Vanth is massive enough that it gravitationally forces Orcus into orbit around the system's barycenter. High-resolution imaging by ALMA resolved Orcus's barycentric orbital motion in 2016, which showed that the barycenter lay 13.7%±1.3% along the separation distance from Orcus to Vanth.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 4  This indicates Vanth has a mass of (8.7±0.8)×1019 kg.<a href="#cite_note-barycenter-28">[f]</a><a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 4  Of all known planet and dwarf planet <a href="/wiki/Satellite_system_(astronomy)" title="Satellite system (astronomy)">satellite systems</a>, Vanth is the most massive satellite relative to its primary: the ratio of Vanth's mass to Orcus's mass is 16%±2%, which is greater than the Pluto–Charon binary's mass ratio of 12%.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 5  Vanth appears to have a similar density as Orcus, despite there being large uncertainties in current estimates for Vanth's density.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 5  According to ALMA measurements for Vanth's diameter and mass, Vanth's density is 1.5+0.5 −1.0 g/cm3.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 4  Using the occultation estimate for Vanth's diameter instead of ALMA yields a higher density of 1.9±0.3 g/cm3.<a href="#cite_note-occ-density-11">[c]</a> If Vanth's density is indeed similar to Orcus's, this would support an impact origin for the system.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 5  Nevertheless, additional observations of the Orcus–Vanth system are needed to refine Vanth's mass and density before any conclusions could be made about Vanth's origin and interior structure.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 5  <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Surface">Surface</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Vanth_(moon)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Surface">edit</a>]</div> Visible and <a href="/wiki/Near-infrared" class="mw-redirect" title="Near-infrared">near-infrared</a> Hubble observations of Vanth from 2007–2008 showed that the moon's surface appears moderately red, being increasingly more reflective over longer and redder <a href="/wiki/Wavelength" title="Wavelength">wavelengths</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2010-14">[11]</a>: 2702  Vanth's surface is expected to be devoid of <a href="/wiki/Volatile_(astrogeology)" title="Volatile (astrogeology)">volatile ices</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Ammonia" title="Ammonia">ammonia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Methane" title="Methane">methane</a>, since Vanth is too small for its gravity to prevent gases from <a href="/wiki/Atmospheric_escape" title="Atmospheric escape">escaping into space</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Delsanti2010-30">[24]</a>: 8  <a href="/wiki/Near-infrared" class="mw-redirect" title="Near-infrared">Near-infrared</a> <a href="/wiki/Spectroscopy" title="Spectroscopy">spectroscopy</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope" title="Very Large Telescope">Very Large Telescope</a> in 2010 confirmed Vanth's reddish color but did not conclusively detect signs of water ice in Vanth's spectrum due to the low resolution of the observations.<a href="#cite_note-Carry2011-25">[20]</a>: 5  Nevertheless, Vanth's reddish spectrum appears consistent with a low water ice abundance on its surface, which suggests that its surface composition may be similar to those of <a href="/wiki/Tholin" title="Tholin">tholin</a>-covered Kuiper belt objects.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2010-14">[11]</a>: 2702 <a href="#cite_note-Carry2011-25">[20]</a>: 5  Vanth's reddish color and apparent lack of exposed water ice hinted that it should have a dark surface with a <a href="/wiki/Geometric_albedo" title="Geometric albedo">geometric albedo</a> lower than that of Orcus;<a href="#cite_note-Brown2010-14">[11]</a>: 2704 <a href="#cite_note-Ortiz2011-12">[9]</a>: 6  this was confirmed in ALMA observations from 2016, which determined a geometric albedo of 0.08 for Vanth based on its thermal emission.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2018-9">[7]</a>: 3  <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Light_curve,_rotation,_and_shape">Light curve, rotation, and shape</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Vanth_(moon)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Light curve, rotation, and shape">edit</a>]</div> Due to the pole-on perspective of the Orcus–Vanth system from Earth, a large portion of the components' surfaces stay in view as they rotate, resulting in minuscule changes in brightness that make it difficult for astronomers to study the system's <a href="/wiki/Light_curve" title="Light curve">light curve</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2010-14">[11]</a>: 2704  In addition, Orcus and Vanth orbit so close to each other that most telescopes on Earth cannot resolve them individually, so the light curves from each component are combined as a single light curve.<a href="#cite_note-Ortiz2011-12">[9]</a>: 2  Continuous <a href="/wiki/Photometry_(astronomy)" title="Photometry (astronomy)">photometric</a> observations of the unresolved Orcus–Vanth system in 2009–2010 showed that its overall brightness varies with a small light curve <a href="/wiki/Amplitude" title="Amplitude">amplitude</a> of 0.06±0.04 magnitudes and a period of 9.7±0.3 days.<a href="#cite_note-Ortiz2011-12">[9]</a>: 3  This roughly coincides with Vanth's 9.54-day orbital period, which indicates there is <a href="/wiki/Tidal_locking" title="Tidal locking">synchronous rotation</a> in one or both of the system's components.<a href="#cite_note-Ortiz2011-12">[9]</a>: 3  At least one of these synchronously rotating components must have either an elongated shape or surface albedo variations to cause these brightness variations.<a href="#cite_note-Ortiz2011-12">[9]</a>: 3  Researchers <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Luis_Ortiz_Moreno" title="José Luis Ortiz Moreno">José Luis Ortiz</a> et al. suggested in 2011 that at least Vanth must be synchronously rotating according to the Orcus–Vanth system's light curve,<a href="#cite_note-Ortiz2011-12">[9]</a>: 3  whereas <a href="/wiki/David_L._Rabinowitz" title="David L. Rabinowitz">David Rabinowitz</a> and Yasi Owainati argued in 2014 that the system's variability should most likely come from both components, meaning the Orcus–Vanth system should be doubly synchronous.<a href="#cite_note-Rabinowitz2014-13">[10]</a> No individually-resolved light curve for Vanth has been measured yet, so its shape is unknown.<a href="#cite_note-Sickafoose2019-8">[6]</a>: 663  Vanth's diameter lies close to the ~400 km (250 mi) threshold for <a href="/wiki/Hydrostatic_equilibrium" title="Hydrostatic equilibrium">hydrostatic equilibrium</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn" title="Moons of Saturn">moons of Saturn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Uranus" title="Moons of Uranus">Uranus</a>, so Vanth would probably not be massive enough to gravitationally compress itself into a sphere, especially in the cold temperatures of the Kuiper belt (below 44 <a href="/wiki/Kelvin" title="Kelvin">K</a>; −229 <a href="/wiki/Celsius" title="Celsius">°C</a>)<a href="#cite_note-Sickafoose2019-8">[6]</a>: 663  where ice and rock are more rigid.<a href="#cite_note-Lineweaver2009-31">[25]</a>: 75 <a href="#cite_note-Tancredi2010-32">[26]</a>: 176  <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Vanth_(moon)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-i-ecliptic-6"><a href="#cite_ref-i-ecliptic_6-0">^</a> Given Vanth's orbit pole <a href="/wiki/Ecliptic_latitude" class="mw-redirect" title="Ecliptic latitude">ecliptic latitude</a> of −0.54°±0.17°,<a href="#cite_note-Grundy2019-5">[5]</a>: 67  subtracting this angle from the ecliptic north pole of +90° gives the inclination with respect to the ecliptic: i = +90° – (–0.54°) = +90.54°. </li> <li id="cite_note-arg-peri-7"><a href="#cite_ref-arg-peri_7-0">^</a> Grundy et al. (2019) only give the <a href="/wiki/Longitude_of_periapsis" title="Longitude of periapsis">longitude of periapsis</a> for Vanth's orbit, which is 328°±51°.<a href="#cite_note-Grundy2019-5">[5]</a>: 67  The longitude of periapsis is the sum of the <a href="/wiki/Ascending_node" class="mw-redirect" title="Ascending node">ascending node</a> and <a href="/wiki/Argument_of_periapsis" title="Argument of periapsis">argument of periapsis</a>, so subtracting Vanth's ascending node of 53.49°±0.33° from its longitude of periapsis gives 274.51° for its argument of periapsis. </li> <li id="cite_note-occ-density-11">^ <a href="#cite_ref-occ-density_11-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-occ-density_11-1">b</a> Brown and Butler (2023) did not calculate Vanth's density for its occultation-derived diameter of 442.5±10.2 km.<a href="#cite_note-Brown2023-10">[8]</a>: 2  Using correct units, dividing Vanth's estimated mass of (8.7±0.8)×1019 kg by the spherical volume of the occultation-derived diameter gives a density of approximately 1.9±0.3 g/cm3. </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a> In his blog posts, Michael Brown wrote Vanth's provisional designation as S/1 90482 (2005), which is a not a standard way of writing satellite provisional designations.<a href="#cite_note-MBP-Mar09-19">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-MBP-Apr09-20">[17]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a> The IAU's Committee for Small Body Nomenclature is now known as the Working Group Small Body Nomenclature. </li> <li id="cite_note-barycenter-28">^ <a href="#cite_ref-barycenter_28-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-barycenter_28-1">b</a> In a <a href="/wiki/Barycenter#Two-body_problem" class="mw-redirect" title="Barycenter">two-body binary system</a>, the ratio of the primary body's (Orcus) orbital radius (r1) from the barycenter to the system's separation distance (a) is equivalent to the ratio of the secondary's (Vanth) mass (m2) to the system's total mass (m1 + m2): <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\frac {r_{1}}{a}}={\frac {m_{2}}{m_{1}+m_{2}}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <msub> <mi>r</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>1</mn> </mrow> </msub> <mi>a</mi> </mfrac> </mrow> <mo>=</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <msub> <mi>m</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>2</mn> </mrow> </msub> <mrow> <msub> <mi>m</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>1</mn> </mrow> </msub> <mo>+</mo> <msub> <mi>m</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>2</mn> </mrow> </msub> </mrow> </mfrac> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\frac {r_{1}}{a}}={\frac {m_{2}}{m_{1}+m_{2}}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/c5a704c57f02f78fdfc3e57e3f9f4f80b735829b" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -2.171ex; 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navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/10_Hygiea" title="10 Hygiea">Hygiea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/704_Interamnia" title="704 Interamnia">Interamnia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Centaur_(small_Solar_System_body)" title="Centaur (small Solar System body)">Centaurs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/10199_Chariklo" title="10199 Chariklo">Chariklo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2060_Chiron" title="2060 Chiron">Chiron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5145_Pholus" title="5145 Pholus">Pholus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(44594)_1999_OX3" title="(44594) 1999 OX3">1999 OX3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(501214)_2013_TC146" class="mw-redirect" title="(501214) 2013 TC146">2013 TC146</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(523727)_2014_NW65" title="(523727) 2014 NW65">2014 NW65</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Plutino" title="Plutino">Plutinos</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/38628_Huya" title="38628 Huya">Huya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/28978_Ixion" title="28978 Ixion">Ixion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(469372)_2001_QF298" title="(469372) 2001 QF298">2001 QF298</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(84719)_2002_VR128" title="(84719) 2002 VR128">2002 VR128</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(612533)_2002_XV93" title="(612533) 2002 XV93">2002 XV93</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(208996)_2003_AZ84" title="(208996) 2003 AZ84">2003 AZ84</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(455502)_2003_UZ413" title="(455502) 2003 UZ413">2003 UZ413</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(84922)_2003_VS2" title="(84922) 2003 VS2">2003 VS2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(470308)_2007_JH43" title="(470308) 2007 JH43">2007 JH43</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_OF69" class="mw-redirect" title="2017 OF69">2017 OF69</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Resonant_trans-Neptunian_object#1:2_resonance_("twotinos",_period_~330_years)" title="Resonant trans-Neptunian object">Twotinos</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/(119979)_2002_WC19" title="(119979) 2002 WC19">2002 WC19</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Classical_Kuiper_belt_object" title="Classical Kuiper belt object">Cubewanos</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/19521_Chaos" title="19521 Chaos">Chaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/120347_Salacia" title="120347 Salacia">Salacia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/174567_Varda" title="174567 Varda">Varda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/20000_Varuna" title="20000 Varuna">Varuna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(35671)_1998_SN165" title="(35671) 1998 SN165">1998 SN165</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(55565)_2002_AW197" title="(55565) 2002 AW197">2002 AW197</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_CY248" class="mw-redirect" title="2002 CY248">2002 CY248</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(119951)_2002_KX14" title="(119951) 2002 KX14">2002 KX14</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(307261)_2002_MS4" title="(307261) 2002 MS4">2002 MS4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(55637)_2002_UX25" title="(55637) 2002 UX25">2002 UX25</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(307616)_2003_QW90" class="mw-redirect" title="(307616) 2003 QW90">2003 QW90</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(90568)_2004_GV9" title="(90568) 2004 GV9">2004 GV9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(444030)_2004_NT33" title="(444030) 2004 NT33">2004 NT33</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(175113)_2004_PF115" title="(175113) 2004 PF115">2004 PF115</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(120348)_2004_TY364" title="(120348) 2004 TY364">2004 TY364</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(144897)_2004_UX10" title="(144897) 2004 UX10">2004 UX10</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(145452)_2005_RN43" title="(145452) 2005 RN43">2005 RN43</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(202421)_2005_UQ513" title="(202421) 2005 UQ513">2005 UQ513</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_FX86" title="2010 FX86">2010 FX86</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other KBOs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/(469306)_1999_CD158" title="(469306) 1999 CD158">1999 CD158</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(26375)_1999_DE9" title="(26375) 1999 DE9">1999 DE9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(82075)_2000_YW134" title="(82075) 2000 YW134">2000 YW134</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(78799)_2002_XW93" title="(78799) 2002 XW93">2002 XW93</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(574372)_2010_JO179" title="(574372) 2010 JO179">2010 JO179</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(523645)_2010_VK201" title="(523645) 2010 VK201">2010 VK201</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_FW62" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 FW62">2011 FW62</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(471288)_2011_GM27" title="(471288) 2011 GM27">2011 GM27</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(523671)_2013_FZ27" title="(523671) 2013 FZ27">2013 FZ27</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(472271)_2014_UM33" title="(472271) 2014 UM33">2014 UM33</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(495603)_2015_AM281" title="(495603) 2015 AM281">2015 AM281</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(523794)_2015_RR245" title="(523794) 2015 RR245">2015 RR245</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Scattered_disc" title="Scattered disc">Scattered disc objects</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/229762_G%C7%83k%C3%BAn%C7%81%CA%BCh%C3%B2md%C3%ADm%C3%A0" title="229762 Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà">Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/471143_Dziewanna" title="471143 Dziewanna">Dziewanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(26181)_1996_GQ21" class="mw-redirect" title="(26181) 1996 GQ21">1996 GQ21</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(15874)_1996_TL66" title="(15874) 1996 TL66">1996 TL66</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(42301)_2001_UR163" title="(42301) 2001 UR163">2001 UR163</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(84522)_2002_TC302" title="(84522) 2002 TC302">2002 TC302</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(230965)_2004_XA192" title="(230965) 2004 XA192">2004 XA192</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(303775)_2005_QU182" title="(303775) 2005 QU182">2005 QU182</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(145451)_2005_RM43" title="(145451) 2005 RM43">2005 RM43</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_QH181" title="2006 QH181">2006 QH181</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(470599)_2008_OG19" title="(470599) 2008 OG19">2008 OG19</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_KZ39" title="2010 KZ39">2010 KZ39</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(523639)_2010_RE64" title="(523639) 2010 RE64">2010 RE64</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(589683)_2010_RF43" title="(589683) 2010 RF43">2010 RF43</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_JO179" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 JO179">2010 JO179</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_TJ" title="2010 TJ">2010 TJ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(445473)_2010_VZ98" title="(445473) 2010 VZ98">2010 VZ98</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(532037)_2013_FY27" title="(532037) 2013 FY27">2013 FY27</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(543354)_2014_AN55" title="(543354) 2014 AN55">2014 AN55</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(523692)_2014_EZ51" title="(523692) 2014 EZ51">2014 EZ51</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_UZ224" title="2014 UZ224">2014 UZ224</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/(523759)_2014_WK509" title="(523759) 2014 WK509">2014 WK509</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_KH162" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 KH162">2015 KH162</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_RR245" 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