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58534 Logos

58534 Logos

Minor planet in the Kuiper belt


58534 Logos, or as a binary system (58534) Logos-Zoe,[7] is a trans-Neptunian object and binary system from the classical Kuiper belt, approximately 77 kilometers (48 miles) in diameter. The bright cubewano belongs to the cold population and has a 66-kilometer sized companion named Zoe.[6] The system mass is (4.58±0.07)×1017 kg.[7]

Quick Facts Discovery, Discovered by ...

In the Gnostic tradition, Logos and Zoe are a paired emanation of the deity, and part of its creation myth.[1]

Zoe

Quick Facts Discovery, Discovered by ...

Logos is a binary with the components of comparable size orbiting the barycentre on a moderately elliptical orbit.

Logos was discovered on 4 February 1997, and its, companion, Zoe, was discovered on 17 November 2001 from Hubble Space Telescope observations by K. S. Noll, D. C. Stephens, W. M. Grundy, J. Spencer, Robert Millis, Marc Buie, Dale Cruikshank, S. C. Tegler, and W. Romanishin and announced on 11 February 2002.

After the discovery, it received the provisional designation S/2001 (58534) 1. Once confirmed it was officially named (58534) Logos I Zoe. It orbits Logos with a semi-major axis of 8217 km in 309.9 days with an eccentricity of 0.546.[7] Its estimated diameter is 66 km,[5] and mass (0.15 ± 0.02)×1018 kg.

Orbit

A 10-million-year integration of the orbit shows that it is a Classical Kuiper belt object that does not get closer to the Sun than 38.8 AU (5.80 billion km) or further than 52.1 AU.[2]

Orbit of Logos (grey object) compared with Pluto (orange) and Neptune (blue)

References

  1. "58534 Logos (1997 CQ29)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  2. Marc W. Buie (31 May 2003). "Orbit Fit and Astrometric record for 58534". SwRI (Space Science Department).
  3. Brown, Mike. "How many dwarf planets are there in the Solar System". Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  4. Wm. Robert Johnston (4 March 2007). "(58534) Logos and Zoe". Johnston's Archive.
  5. Grundy, W. M; Noll, K. S.; Stephens, D. C. (2005). "Diverse albedos of small trans-neptunian objects". Icarus. 176 (1): 184–191. arXiv:astro-ph/0502229. Bibcode:2005Icar..176..184G. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2005.01.007. S2CID 118866288.
  6. Grundy, W. M.; Noll, K. S.; Nimmo, F.; Roe, H. G.; Buie, M. W.; Porter, S. B.; Benecchi, S. D.; Stephens, D. C.; Levison, H. F.; Stansberry, J. A. (2011). "Five new and three improved mutual orbits of transneptunian binaries" (PDF). Icarus. 213 (2): 678. arXiv:1103.2751. Bibcode:2011Icar..213..678G. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.03.012. S2CID 9571163.

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