Discovery date 2007 Observation arc 1894 days (5.19 yr) Perihelion 28.129 AU (4.2080 Tm) Discovered 2007 Asteroid group Neptune trojan | Minor planet category Trojan asteroid Aphelion 31.880 AU (4.7692 Tm) Semi-major axis 30.004 AU (4.4885 Tm) Absolute magnitude 7.9 | |
Similar (316179) 2010 EN65, S/2004 N 1, Sao, Psamathe, Laomedeia | ||
2007 VL305 is a Neptune trojan discovered on November 4, 2007, by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. It was first imaged in November 2005, and was the sixth such object to be discovered. It has the same orbital period as Neptune and orbits at the L4 Lagrangian point about 60 degrees ahead of Neptune. As of 2016, it is 34.1 AU from Neptune.
It has an inclination of 28 degrees. As of September 2009, this was the highest inclination of any known Neptune trojan.
With an absolute magnitude of 7.9, it has a diameter in the range of 65 to 150 km.
It has been observed 30 times over 4 oppositions.
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