In planetary astronomy, a centaur is a small Solar System body that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune and crosses the orbits of one or more of the giant planets. Centaurs generally have unsta
Phoebe, a moon of Saturn imaged by the Cassini-Huygens probe in 2004, is theorized to be a captured centaur.
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514107 Kaʻepaokaʻāwela
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514107 Kaʻepaokaʻāwela, provisionally designated 2015 BZ509 and nicknamed Bee-Zed, is a small asteroid, approximately 3 km in diameter, in a resonant, co-orbital motion with Jupiter. It is an unusual
Centaur (small Solar System body)
…have unstable orbits because of this; almost all of their orbits have dynamic lifetimes of only a few million years, but there is one known centaur, 514107 Kaʻepaokaʻāwela, which may be in a stable (though retrograde) orbit. Centaurs typically exhibit the characteristics of both asteroids and comets. They are named after…
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