Discovery date 25 August 2008 Minor planet category Centaur Discovered 25 August 2008 Asteroid group Centaur | MPC designation (315898) 2008 QD4 Observation arc 2744 days (7.51 yr) Absolute magnitude 11.4 | |
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Aphelion 11.364 AU (1.7000 Tm) (Q) Perihelion 5.4531 AU (815.77 Gm) (q) | ||
(315898) 2008 QD4, also written as (315898) 2008 QD4, is a centaur with a perihelion greater than Jupiter and a semi-major axis less than Saturn.
Perihelion
(315898) 2008 QD4 is listed as a centaur by the Minor Planet Center (MPC), JPL, and the Deep Ecliptic Survey (DES). Of numbered objects listed as a centaur by all 3 major institutions, (315898) 2008 QD4 has the smallest perihelion distance.
It came to perihelion in August 2010.
References
(315898) 2008 QD4 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA