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OCKS: OGLE Carnegie Kuiper Belt Survey
OCKS is a Southern sky survey searching for Kuiper Belt objects and dwarf
planets. This is a common project of the OGLE collaboration and
the Department of the
Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Observations are carried out with the 1.3 m Warsaw Telescope at Las
Campanas Observatory, Chile, equipped with the 32-chip, 256 Mpixel mosaic camera
covering
1.5 square degrees in the sky with scale of 0.26 arcsec/pixel.
Kuiper Belt Objects Discovered by OCKS
| 2010 KZ39 (Transneptunian Object) | a = 46.414 a.u. e = 0.003 P = 316 years i = 25.6 deg H = 3.9 mag |
| 2010 JK124 (Transneptunian Object) | a = 44.187 a.u. e = 0.088 P = 294 years i = 15.0 deg H = 5.4 mag |
| 2010 JJ124 (Scattered Disk Object) | a = 86.180 a.u. e = 0.738 P = 800 years i = 39.3 deg H = 6.6 mag |
| 2010 HE79 (Transneptunian Object) | a = 44.677 a.u. e = 0.218 P = 299 years i = 14.5 deg H = 5.1 mag |
| 2010 EK139 (Scattered Disk Object) 2010 EK139 is one of the largest Solar System objects discovered during the last couple of years. If its albedo is about 0.05 it may have the diameter over 1000 km. | a = 69.353 a.u. e = 0.532 P = 578 years i = 29.5 deg H = 3.8 mag |
| 2010 EL139 (Transneptunian Object) | a = 37.888 a.u. e = 0.020 P = 285 years i = 23.3 deg H = 5.2 mag |
| 2010 FX86 (Transneptunian Object) 2010 FX 86 belongs to the largest Kuiper Belt objects. It is the most Southern KBO ever discovered (δ≈-38°). | a = 44.012 a.u. e = 0.064 P = 292 years i = 25.3 deg H = 4.3 mag |
Object parameters: a: half semi-axis, e: eccentricity, P: orbital period, i: inclination of the orbit, H: absolute brightness.
Conversion table of absolute brightness to diameters.
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