15760 Albion

Trans-Neptunian object, prototype of cubewanos yes 15760 Albion #C2E0FF 1992 QB1 crop.jpg Long-exposure image of Albion (circled) taken by the European Southern Observatory in September 1992 D. C. JewittJ. X. Luu Mauna Kea Obs. 30 August 1992 (15760) Albion 1992 QB 1 ˈ æ l b i ə n Albion (mythology by William Blake) TNOcubewano (cold)distant 31 May 2020 (JD 2459000.5) 3 26.34 yr (9,621 days) 47.042 AU 40.809 AU 43.925 AU 0.07096 291.13 yr (106,334 days) 34.041° 0.00338555 ms / day 2.1797° 359.276° 0.7765° 125? km108 km 0.2 (assumed) 0.152?List of known trans-Neptunian objects https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/tnoslist.html 2026-05-30 www.johnstonsarchive.net RR (red)B–V=0.869 0.143V−R=0.707 0.093V−I=1.212 0.146 23.3 7.38 0.067.1 15760 Albion (provisional designation 1992 QB 1) was the first trans-Neptunian object to be discovered after Pluto and Charon. Measuring about 108–167 kilometres in diameter, it was discovered in 1992 by David C. Jewitt and Jane X. Luu at the Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii. After the discovery, they dubbed the object "Smiley" and it was shortly hailed as the tenth planet by the press.Collander-Brown S. Maran M. Williams I. P. 2000-10-11 The effect on the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt of a large distant tenth planet Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society en 318 1 101–108 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03640.x 2000MNRAS.318..101C 0035-8711 freeThe earth Coote, Roger. / 9781842399491 London 671197414 August 2008 registration https://archive.org/details/earth0000coot It is a "cold" classical Kuiper belt object and gave rise to the name cubewano for this kind of object, after the QB1 portion of its designation.http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/kb/def_classical.html Classical Kuiper Belt Objects Dr. David Jewitt David Jewitt/UCLA July 1, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131104122640/http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/kb/def_classical.html November 4, 2013 live Decoding its provisional designation, "QB1" reveals that it was the 27th object found in the second half of August of that year.1 As of January 2018, around 2,400 further objects have been found beyond Neptune, a majority of which are classical Kuiper belt objects. It was named after Albion from William Blake's mythology.https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%E2%9C%93&object_id=15760 (15760) Albion = 1992 QB1 IAU Minor Planet Center Naming thumb|left|upright|Orbit of the four outer planets (red) compared to (15760) Albion (blue) This minor planet was named after Albion from the complex mythology of English poet and painter William Blake (1757–1827). Albion is the island-dwelling primeval man whose division resulted into The Four Zoas: Urizen, Tharmas, Luvah/Orc and Urthona/Los. The name Albion itself derives from the ancient and mythological name of Britain. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 31 January 2018 (M.P.C. 108697). The discoverers suggested the name "Smiley" for (15760) 1992 QB 1,What Lurks in the Outer Solar System? (Science@NASA, 13 September 2001) but the name was already used for an asteroid 1613 Smiley, named after the American astronomer Charles Hugh Smiley. It has received the number 15760 and remained unnamed until January 2018 (it was normally referred to simply as "QB1", even though this was technically ambiguous without the year of discovery). left Legacy The next year in 1993, objects in similar orbits were found including (15788) 1993 SB, (15789) 1993 SC, (181708) 1993 FW, and (385185) 1993 RO. Over one thousand bodies were found in the Kuiper belt orbiting between about 30 and 50 AU from the Sun in the twenty years after finding 15760 Albion. This revealed a vast belt of bodies, more than just Pluto and Albion themselves.https://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/the-kuiper-belt-at-20/ The Kuiper Belt at 20 2012-09-01 Astrobiology Magazine en-US 2019-12-01https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/792/10-things-to-know-about-the-kuiper-belt 10 Things to Know About the Kuiper Belt Dyches Preston NASA Solar System Exploration 2019-12-01 By 2018, over 2000 Kuiper belt objects were discovered. Physical characteristics Based on a generic magnitude-to-diameter conversion, Albion measures approximately 167 km mi in diameter, for an assumed albedo of 0.9 and a magnitude of 7.0. According to Mike Brown, who estimates a mean diameter of 108 km mi, the object is too small for being considered a dwarf planet candidate ("probably not"). As of 2021, no rotational lightcurve for this body has been obtained from photometric observations. Its rotation period and pole, as well as its composition and shape remain unknown. See also List of trans-Neptunian objects Notes 1Minor planet and asteroid provisional designations follow a format, in which the year it was discovered comes first, followed by the half-month it was discovered alphabetically (e.g. A=January 1–15, B=January 16–31 and so on, but skipping the letters I and Z) and then the order of its discovery alphabetically followed by a number (e.g. 1992 QA, 1992 QB, 1992 QC ... 1992 QY, 1992 QZ, 1992 QA1, 1992 QB1 and so on.) According to this, Q=August 16–31 and B1=25+2=27. References 2019-01-02 last obs. JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 15760 Albion (1992 QB1) https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2015760 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 16 September 2019 (15760) Albion = 1992 QB1 Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=15760 6 February 2018 MPC/MPO/MPS Archive Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html 6 February 2018 William Robert Johnston 28 December 2015 List of Known Trans-Neptunian Objects Johnston's Archive http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/tnoslist.html 2015-01-03 Mike Brown, 'How many dwarf planets are there in the outer solar system?' https://web.archive.org/web/20111018154917/http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/dps.html October 18, 2011 Accessed 2014-11-19 AstDys (15760) Albion Ephemerides Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, Italy https://newton.spacedys.com/astdys/index.php?pc=1.1.3.0&n=15760 2010-03-03 IAU Minor Planet Center 14 September 1992 IAUC 5611: 1992 QB1 http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/05600/05611.html 2011-07-05 Marc W. Buie 30 November 1999 Orbit Fit and Astrometric record for 15760 http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~buie/kbo/astrom/15760.html SwRI, Space Science Department 2008-09-28 Marcello Fulchignoni Irina Belskaya Maria Antonietta Barucci Maria Cristina De Sanctis Alain Doressoundiram 2008 The Solar System Beyond Neptune Transneptunian Object Taxonomy http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/out/kbbook/Chapters/Fulchignoni_Taxonomy.pdf S. D. Benecchi K. S. Noll D. C. Stephens W. M. Grundy J. Rawlins June 2011 Optical and infrared colors of transneptunian objects observed with HST Icarus 213 2 693–709 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.03.005 1103.2175 2011Icar..213..693B 119277385 O. R. Hainaut H. Boehnhardt S. Protopapa October 2012 Colours of minor bodies in the outer solar system. II. A statistical analysis revisited https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2012/10/aa19566-12.pdf Astronomy & Astrophysics 546 20 10.1051/0004-6361/201219566 free 1209.1896 2012A&A...546A.115H 54776793 External links Beyond Jupiter: 15760 Albion, Nikolai Wünsche, Journal for Occultation Astronomy, October 2019 The Discovery of the Kuiper Belt, David Jewitt, Astronomy Beat, 3 May 2010 New Planet Found in the Outer Solar System, European Southern Observatory, 2 October 1992 1992 QB1 - First Object Discovered in Kuiper Belt, David Jewitt, 14 September 1992 15760 15760 15752 Eluard 15760 15761 Schumi 015760 Category:Discoveries by David C. Jewitt Category:Discoveries by Jane Luu Category:Named minor planets 19920830 Category:Named TNOs