--Orbital and physical data--
(Seethis page for definitions of quantities; source codes in brackets, seethis link for full references; *A, *D, and *E indicate assumed, derived, and estimated values, respectively.)
| dynamical type, primary:TNO, Cubewano orbital data, primary (osculating elements)[JPL]:
orbital data, secondary:
| other data, system (combined):
other data, primary:
other data, secondary:
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-- 2015 VM173 --discovery and notes:
Primary discovered2015 Nov 07from Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii, USAby Outer Solar System Origins Survey.Linked to prediscovery observations from 2014 Nov 17.
Companion discovered2019 Aug 03usingHubble Space Telescope observations.Announced2019 Aug [G19c].
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