38083 Rhadamanthus

Infobox Planet | discovery=yes | physical_characteristics=yes
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name=38083 Rhadamanthus
discoverer=Deep Ecliptic Survey
discovered=April 17, 1999
mp_name=38083 Rhadamanthus
alt_names=mp|1999 HX|11
mp_category=TNO (plutino?)cite web
date=2006 Dec. 21
title=MPEC 2006-X45 : Distant Minor Planets
publisher=Minor Planet Center & Tamkin Foundation Computer Network
url=http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpec/K06/K06X45.html
accessdate=2008-07-18 [http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K05/K05X77.html (older provisional Plutino listing)] ]
orbit_ref = cite web
author=Marc W. Buie
date=2008/06/07
title=Orbit Fit and Astrometric record for 38083
publisher=SwRI (Space Science Department)
url=http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~buie/kbo/astrom/38083.html
accessdate=2008-07-17] cite web
date=2008-06-07 last obs
title=JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 38083 Rhadamanthus (1999 HX11)
url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=Rhadamanthus
accessdate=2008-07-17]
epoch=December 31, 2006 (JD 2454100.5)
semimajor=5857.494 Gm (39.155 AU)
perihelion=4967.394 Gm (33.205 AU)
aphelion=6747.594 Gm (45.105 AU)
eccentricity=0.152
period=89490.745 d (245.01 a)
inclination=12.731°
asc_node=10.001°
arg_peri=81.785°
mean_anomaly=84.451°
avg_speed=4.73 km/s
dimensions=87-276 km [ [http://www.sphinx.planetwaves.net/rhadamanthus.htm Rhadamanthus] ] ^{[http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/glossary/h.html H]}
mass=0.69-22e|18? kg
density=2.0? g/cm³
surface_grav=0.02-0.08? m/s²
escape_velocity=0.05-0.15? km/s
sidereal_day=? d
spectral_type=?
abs_magnitude=6.7
albedo=0.10?
single_temperature=~44 K 38083 Rhadamanthus (pronEng|ˌrædəˈmænθəs respell|RAD|ə|MAN|thəs, from _gr. "Ραδάμανθος") is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO). It was discovered in 1999 by the Deep Ecliptic Survey. It was originally classified as a plutino but no longer is.

It is named after the Greek mythological figure Rhadamanthus.

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External links

* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=38083;orb=1;view=Far Orbital simulation] from JPL (Java) / [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi?find_body=1&body_group=sb&sstr=38083 Ephemeris]