471325 Taowu
Taowu imaged by the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope on 22 May 2014 | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Mount Lemmon Survey |
| Discovery site | Mount Lemmon Obs. |
| Discovery date | 31 May 2011 |
| Designations | |
| (471325) Taowu | |
Named after | Taowu |
| |
| TNO · centaur distant | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch 17 October 2024 (JD 2460600.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 2 | |
| Observation arc | 14.05 yr (5,131 d) |
| Earliest precovery date | 10 May 2010 |
| Aphelion | 47.588 AU |
| Perihelion | 23.839 AU |
| 35.713 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.3325 |
| 213.43 yr (77,955 d) | |
| 42.884° | |
| 0° 0m 16.625s / day | |
| Inclination | 110.311° |
| 243.903° | |
| ≈ 15 May 1999 ±0.13 days | |
| 322.913° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 177 km (assumed albedo 0.058) | |
| 22 | |
| 7.45 | |
471325 Taowu (provisional designation 2011 KT19, formerly nicknamed Niku (/niːkuː/)) is a trans-Neptunian object whose orbit is tilted 110° with respect to the ecliptic. Thus, it has a nearly polar retrograde orbit around the Sun from the reference point of Earth's orbital plane.