(181708) 1993 FW

Trans-Neptunian object yes #C2E0FF 1993 FW crop.jpg 1993 FW as taken by astronomers David Jewitt and Jane Luu using the Danish 1.54-metre telescope at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in La Silla, Chile. (181708) 1993 FW David C. Jewitt,Jane X. Luu 28 March 1993 Trans-Neptunian object(cubewano)Marc W. Buie Marc W. Buie Orbit Fit and Astrometric record for 181708 SwRI (Space Science Department) http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~buie/kbo/astrom/181708.html 2018-02-18 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5)JPL Small-Body Database Browser Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=181708 7 April 2016 43.967 AU Tm on 41.642 AU Tm on 46.293 AU Tm on on 0.052899 291.54 yr (106487 d) 7.7336° 187.837° 40.180° 351.305° 4.489 km/s 175 kmList of Known Trans-Neptunian Objects Wm. Robert Johnston http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/index.html 2015-01-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20150109112556/http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/index.html 2015-01-09 live 241 kmHow many dwarf planets are there in the outer solar system? Mike Brown http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/dps.html 2015-01-03 7.0 0.0033807 ms / day 5456 days (14.94 yr) 3 36.2333 AU Tm on (181708) 1993 FW is a cubewano and was the second trans-Neptunian object to be discovered after Pluto and Charon, the first having been 15760 Albion, provisionally known as 1992 QB 1. It was discovered in 1993 by David C. Jewitt and Jane X. Luu at the Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii.1993 FW B.S. Marsden Minor Planet Center 1993IAUC.5730....1L 1993 Jewitt, D. Marsden, B. G. 5730 1 IAU Circ. Following its discovery it was nicknamed "Karla" after a character by John le Carré by its discoverersSpace body given name of Le Carre character: Astronomers discover planetesimal Karla https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/space-body-given-name-of-le-carre-character-astronomers-discover-planetesimal-karla-1456581.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/space-body-given-name-of-le-carre-character-astronomers-discover-planetesimal-karla-1456581.html 2022-05-01 subscription live The Independent April 20, 1993 and was hailed as that of a new planet.https://archive.org/details/earth0000coot The earth Coote, Roger August 2008 9781842399491 London Alligator Books 671197414 registration 1993 FW was also discovered half a year after Albion.https://books.google.com/books?id=NvI0AgAAQBAJ&q=%28181708%29+1993+FW+paper&pg=PA127 COMETS!: Visitors from Deep Space Eicher David J. 2013-09-23 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-51350-1 en See also 15760 Albion List of trans-Neptunian objects Kuiper belt (15788) 1993 SB, another Kuiper belt object discovered in 1993MPEC 2010-B62 :Distant Minor Planets (2010 FEB. 13.0 TT) 2010-01-30 Minor Planet Center https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K10/K10B62.html 2010-02-20 (15789) 1993 SC, another KBO discovered in 1993 (385185) 1993 RO, another KBO discovered in 1993 References External links 181708 181708 (181708) 1993 FW 181708 Category:Discoveries by David C. Jewitt Category:Discoveries by Jane Luu 19930328