Newly Discovered Satelites Around Giant KBOs

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Newly Discovered Satelites Around Giant KBOs

Post #1by Planet X » 24.02.2007, 22:41

The most recent IAU Circular report (#8812, dated Feb. 22, 2007) reports the discovery of Satellites orbiting giant KBOs 2003 AZ_84, (50000) Quaoar, (55637) 2002 UX_25, and (90482) Orcus.

For more info, visit http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=54500. Later!

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Post #2by Hungry4info » 24.02.2007, 23:22

I remember hearing about Orcus having a satellite a while back, before they announced it publically. I believe the phrasing was "The pluto-charon like system of Orcus" or something like that. Still, this is good news.
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Post #3by symaski62 » 24.02.2007, 23:45

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Post #4by Hungry4info » 25.02.2007, 21:32

Unfortunately, those pages do not indicate any parameters of the moons.
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