(532037) 2013 FY27

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(532037) 2013 FY27
2013 FY27.png
2013 FY27 and its satellite, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope on 15 January 2018
Discovery [1]
Discovered by
Discovery date17 March 2013
(announced on 31 March 2014)
Designations
2013 FY27
Orbital characteristics [3]
Epoch 2023 Feb 25 (JD  2460000.5)
Uncertainty parameter 4
Observation arc 3953 days (10.82 yr)
Earliest precovery date15 March 2011 (Pan-STARRS)
Aphelion 81.912  AU (12.2539  Tm)
Perihelion 35.199 AU (5.2657 Tm)
58.555 AU (8.7597 Tm)
Eccentricity 0.3989
448.08  yr (163,660  d)
215.947°
0° 0m 7.92s /day
Inclination 33.290°
186.922°
≈ 2202 June 15 ± 17 days
139.752°
Known satellites 1 [4] [5] [6]
Physical characteristics
Mean diameter
765+80
−85 km(effective diameter) [4]
742+78
−83 km(primary) [lower-alpha 1] [4]
0.170+0.045
−0.030 [4]
Temperature 22  K (perihelion) to
16 K (aphelion)
22.5 [7]
3.15±0.03 [4] [3]

    (532037) 2013 FY27 (provisional designation 2013 FY27) is a trans-Neptunian object and binary system that belongs to the scattered disc (like Eris). [8] Its discovery was announced on 31 March 2014. [1] It has an absolute magnitude (H) of 3.2. [3] 2013 FY27 is a binary object, with two components approximately 740 kilometres (460 mi) and 190 kilometres (120 mi) in diameter. It is the ninth-intrinsically-brightest known trans-Neptunian object, [9] [ failed verification ] and is approximately tied with 2002 AW197 and 2002 MS4 (to within measurement uncertainties) as the largest unnamed object in the Solar System.

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    Orbit

    Orbit of 2013 FY27 2013 FY27-orbit.png
    Orbit of 2013 FY27

    2013 FY27 orbits the Sun once every 449 years. It will come to perihelion around November 2202, [3] [lower-alpha 2] at a distance of about 35.6  AU. It is currently near aphelion, 80 AU from the Sun, and, as a result, it has an apparent magnitude of 22. [1] Its orbit has a significant inclination of 33°. [3] The sednoid 2012 VP113 and the scattered-disc object 2013 FZ27 were discovered by the same survey as 2013 FY27 and were announced within about a week of one another.

    Physical properties

    2013 FY27 has a diameter of about 740 kilometres (460 mi), placing it at a transition zone between medium-sized and large TNOs. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array and Magellan Telescopes, its albedo was found to be 0.17, and its colour to be moderately red. 2013 FY27 is one of the largest moderately red TNOs. The physical processes that lead to a lack of such moderately red TNOs larger than 800 kilometres (500 mi) are not yet well understood.

    The brightness of 2013 FY27 varies by less than 0.06 mag over hours and days, suggesting that it either has a very long rotation period, an approximately spheroidal shape, or a rotation axis pointing towards Earth. [4]

    Brown estimated, prior to the discovery of its satellite, that 2013 FY27 was very likely to be a dwarf planet, due to its large size. [10] However, Grundy et al. calculate that bodies such as 2013 FY27, less than about 1000 km in diameter, with albedos less than ≈0.2 and densities of ≈1.2 g/cm3 or less, may retain a degree of porosity in their physical structure, having never collapsed into fully solid bodies. [11]

    The surface area of asteroid 532037 (2013 FY27) is similar to the area of the state of Texas. [12]

    Satellite

    S/2018 (532037) 1
    2013FY27.gif
    Animation of 2013 FY27 and its satellite, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope from January to July 2018
    Discovery [4]
    Discovered by
    Discovery date15 January 2018
    Orbital characteristics [4]
    >9800±40 km
    ≈19 d (for assumed density 1.6 g/cm3) [13]
    Satellite of 2013 FY27
    Physical characteristics
    Mean diameter
    		≈186 km (assuming equal albedos) [4]
    Albedo 0.170+0.045
    −0.030     (assumed)
    25.5 [7]
    6.15 [lower-alpha 3]

      Using Hubble Space Telescope observations taken in January 2018, Scott Sheppard found a satellite around 2013 FY27, that was 0.17 arcseconds away and 3.0±0.2 mag fainter than its primary. The discovery was announced on 10 August 2018. [14] The satellite does not have a provisional designation nor a proper name. [3] Assuming the two components have equal albedos, they are about 740 kilometres (460 mi) and 190 kilometres (120 mi) in diameter, respectively. [4] Follow-up observations were taken between May and July 2018 in order to determine the orbit of the satellite, [5] but the results of these observations remain yet to be published as of 2022. [7] Once the orbit is known, the mass of the system can be determined.

      See also

      Notes

      1. ↑ Assuming the two components have equal albedos
      2. ↑ The uncertainty in the time of perihelion passage is ≈1 month (1-sigma) or 3.6 months (3-sigma). [3]
      3. ↑ Given the primary's absolute magnitude of H = 3.15 and a magnitude difference of Δm = 3.00 between the primary and satellite, the sum of those magnitudes is the satellite's absolute magnitude, 6.15. [4] [7]

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