2005 TN53

2005 TN53 is a Neptune Trojan, which was discovered in 2005 by Scott S. Sheppard and Chad Trujillo using the Magellan Baade 0.5 -6 - m telescope. It was the third such body was discovered. It has the same orbital period as Neptune and is located on the Lagrangian point L4, 60 ° before Neptune.

The orbital inclination is 25 °.

With an absolute magnitude of 9.1 it is probably the smallest known Neptune Trojans with a diameter in the range of 40 to 90 km.

He was about three oppositions of observation for 23 times.

Asteroid Trojan (astronomy) Longitude of the ascending node Argument of periapsis Intrinsic brightness Magellan Telescopes Digital Object Identifier
12363
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