A New Dynamical Class in the Outer Solar System

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Jul 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997dps....29.2507l&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #29, #25.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 29, p.1020

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We report the discovery of 1996 TL66, perhaps the first detected member of a scattered component of the trans-Neptunian population (which we label Scattered Kuiper Belt objects, or SKBOs for short). At red magnitude m_R ~ 20.9, TL66 is the brightest trans-Neptunian found in recent years; with an assumed albedo of 4%, its diameter is 490 km. The eccentric orbit of TL66 carries it as far as ~ 130 AU at aphelion, suggesting that the Kuiper Belt population extends much further than the 30-50 AU region sampled by previous surveys. Discovery statistics imply that there are ~ 6400 objects like TL66. Details and implications of the discovery can be found in Luu et al., Nature, June 1997.

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