| Discovery date 10 September 2005 Observation arc 22376 days (61.26 yr) Discovered 10 September 2005 Argument of perihelion 174.88° Discoverer Jeremy M. Kubica Apparent magnitude 20.1 | MPC designation (145452) 2005 RN43 Aphelion 42.146 AU (6.3050 Tm) Inclination 19.313° Mean anomaly 338.28° Discovery site Apache Point Observatory | |
| Discovered by A. C. BeckerA. W. PuckettJ. M. Kubica Minor planet category TNOCubewanoExtended (DES) | ||
(145452) 2005 RN43, also written as (145452) 2005 RN43, is a classical Kuiper belt object. It has an estimated diameter of 7005679000000000000♠679+55
−73 km. It was discovered by Andrew Becker, Andrew Puckett and Jeremy Kubica on 10 September 2005 at Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico. It is possibly a dwarf planet.
Classification
The Minor Planet Center (MPC) classifies it as a cubewano. But since this object has an inclination of 19.3° and it is unknown how it acquired this moderate inclination, the Deep Ecliptic Survey (DES) classifies it as scattered-extended.
It has been observed 119 times over thirteen oppositions, with precovery images back to 1954.
References
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