Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Aug 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001mnras.325..972c&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 325, Issue 3, pp. 972-978.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Methods: Numerical, Techniques: Photometric, Celestial Mechanics, Comets: General
Scientific paper
On 1998 December 12 a new trans-Neptunian object, 1998 XY95, was discovered as part of a deep search. Recent observations of this object have placed it amongst the class of objects known as the scattered trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). A total of 39 CCD images of 1998 XY95 were taken over two nights, and these were used to search for a light curve, but no significant periodicity was found. An examination of the possible orbital evolution gives no indication of how it may have arrived on its present orbit. The current best-fitting orbit is unstable, but remains within a band of semi-major axis approximately 2au wide. The bottom of this band is due to 3:1 mean motion resonance with Neptune, while the reason for the top of the band remains unclear.
Collander-Brown Simon J.
Fitzsimmons Alan
Fletcher E.
Irwin Mary Jane
Williams Iwan P.
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