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2010 BK118

Centaur on a retrograde cometary orbit From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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2010 BK118 (also written 2010 BK118) is a centaur roughly 20–60 km in diameter. It is on a retrograde cometary orbit. It has a barycentric semi-major axis (average distance from the Sun) of ~400 AU.[a]

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2010 BK118 came to perihelion in April 2012 at a distance of 6.1 AU from the Sun (outside the orbit of Jupiter).[4] It has a Jupiter-MOID of 1.1 AU.[4] As of 2016, it is 11 AU from the Sun.[6]

It will not be 50 AU from the Sun until 2043. After leaving the planetary region of the Solar System, 2010 BK118 will have a barycentric aphelion of 791 AU with an orbital period of 8000 years.

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  1. Given the orbital eccentricity of this object, different epochs can generate quite different heliocentric unperturbed two-body best-fit solutions to the semi-major axis and orbital period. For objects at such high eccentricity, the Sun's barycentric coordinates are more stable than heliocentric coordinates. Using JPL Horizons, the barycentric semi-major axis is approximately 399 AU.[7]

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