Cubewano
Abstract
Any of the main stream of Kuiper Belt objects, at 41-47 AU mean distance from the Sun, inclination of orbit ranging up to 30°, eccentricity up to 0.1. Named after the designation, 1992 QB1, of the first Kuiper Belt object, which was discovered by Dave Jewitt (University of Hawaii)....
- Publication:
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Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- November 2000
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2000eaa..bookE5403.
- Keywords:
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- Solar System;
- Asteroids