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(175113) 2004 PF115

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Discovery date
  
7 August 2004

Minor planet category
  
TNO (plutino)

Aphelion
  
41.593 AU (6.2222 Tm)

Inclination
  
13.357°

Mean anomaly
  
165.41°

Alternative names
  
none

Observation arc
  
6667 days (18.25 yr)

Discovered
  
7 August 2004

Argument of perihelion
  
84.2°

Discovery site
  
Palomar Observatory

Discovered by
  
M. Brown, C. A. Trujillo, D. Rabinowitz

Discoverers
  
Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, David L. Rabinowitz

Similar
  
2008 ST291, (119951) 2002 KX14, (84922) 2003 VS2, (229762) 2007 UK126, 38083 Rhadamanthus

(175113) 2004 PF115 (also written 2004 PF115) is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO). It was discovered in 2006 by M. Brown, C. Trujillo, D. Rabinowitz. The object is a plutino (in 2:3 resonance with Neptune).

Physical properties

The size of (175113) 2004 PF115 was measured by the Herschel Space Telescope to be 7005406300000000000♠406.3+97.6
−75.3
 km
.

References

(175113) 2004 PF115 Wikipedia