DISCOVERY OF A NEW RETROGRADE TRANS-NEPTUNIAN OBJECT: HINT OF A COMMON ORBITAL PLANE FOR LOW SEMIMAJOR AXIS, HIGH-INCLINATION TNOs AND CENTAURS

ABSTRACT Although the majority of Centaurs are thought to have originated in the scattered disk, with the high-inclination members coming from the Oort cloud, the origin of the high-inclination component of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) remains uncertain. We report the discovery of a retrograde TNO...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Astrophysical journal. Letters 2016-08, Vol.827 (2), p.L24-L24
Hauptverfasser:	Chen (陳英同), Ying-Tung, Lin (林省文), Hsing Wen, Holman, Matthew J., Payne, Matthew J., Fraser, Wesley C., Lacerda, Pedro, Ip (葉永烜), Wing-Huen, Chen (陳文屏), Wen-Ping, Kudritzki, Rolf-Peter, Jedicke, Robert, Wainscoat, Richard J., Tonry, John L., Magnier, Eugene A., Waters, Christopher, Kaiser, Nick, Wang, Shiang-Yu, Lehner, Matthew
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aircraft detection Clustering Disks Dwarf planets Kuiper belt: general Oort Cloud Origins Planes surveys Trans-Neptunian objects
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