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VNH0004
, temporarily designated VNH0004, is a trans-Neptunian object from the Inner classical belt, inner classical part of the Kuiper belt, located in the outermost region of the Solar System. It measures approximately in diameter. The object was first observed on 29 May 2011, during the New Horizons KBO Search conducted by astronomers using the Subaru Telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii, United States. It was later observed by the ''New Horizons'' space probe from afar in January 2015. Orbit and classification orbits the Sun at a distance of 32.4–42.7 Astronomical unit, AU once every 229 years and 10 months (83,950 days; semi-major axis of 37.5 AU). Its orbit has an orbital eccentricity, eccentricity of 0.14 and an orbital inclination, inclination of 3.6Degree (angle), ° with respect to the ecliptic. This object was observed 12 times by the Mauna Kea Observatories, Mauna Kea (8) and Las Campanas Observatory, Las Campanas (4) observatories over a period ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Horizons KBO Search
''New Horizons'' is an interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by Alan Stern, the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study of the Pluto system in 2015, and a secondary mission to fly by and study one or more other Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) in the decade to follow, which became a mission to 486958 Arrokoth. It is the fifth space probe to achieve the escape velocity needed to leave the Solar System. On January 19, 2006, ''New Horizons'' was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station by an Atlas V rocket directly into an Earth-and-solar escape trajectory with a speed of about . It was the fastest (average speed with respect to Earth) man-made object ever launched from Earth. It is not the fastest speed recorded for a spacecraft, which as of 2021 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
