20 June, 2013
Three Centaurs follow Uranus through the inner Solar System The 3rd asteroid, “2011 QF99″ the discovery of which was made public only a few weeks ago.
MessageToEagle.com – A large asteroid – Crantor – with a diameter of 70 km has an orbit similar to that of Uranus and takes the same amount of time to orbit the Sun, confirmed astrophysicists from the Complutense University of Madrid.
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This wider view of Uranus reveals the planet’s faint rings and several of its satellites. The area outside Uranus was enhanced in brightness to reveal the faint rings and satellites. The outermost ring is brighter on the lower side, where it is wider. It is made of dust and small pebbles, which create a thin, dark, and almost vertical line across the right side of Uranus (especially visible on the natural-color image). The bright satellite on the lower right corner is Ariel, which has a snowy white surface. Five small satellites with dark surfaces can be seen just outside the rings. Clockwise from the top, they are: Desdemona, Belinda, Portia, Cressida, and Puck. Even fainter satellites were imaged in deeper exposures, also taken with the Advanced Camera in August 2003. Credit: NASA and Erich Karkoschka, University of Arizona
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that this and a further two objects of the group of the Centaurs- asteroid-comet hybrids – are co-orbital with Uranus.
In 2006, Uruguayan astronomer Tabaré Gallardo suggested that the asteroids Crantor and 2000 SN331 complete their orbits of the Sun in the same time period as Uranus — an orbit of approximately 84 Earth years.
Now two researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, Spain) have confirmed that in the case of Crantor this is true.
Artist’s impression of asteroid Crantor near Uranus. SINC
“This 70 km-wide asteroid’s orbit is controlled by the Sun and Uranus but is unstable due to disturbances from nearby Saturn,” states De la Fuente Marcos.
The researcher also reveals that they found another object, which has been named 2010 EU65 and moves in a similar orbit to Crantor’s, “although much more stable because its trajectory is less eccentric.”
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