8405 Asbolus
It was discovered on 5 April 1995, by James Scotti and Robert Jedicke of Spacewatch (credited) at Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona, United States.It is named after Asbolus, a centaur in Greek mythology and measures approximately 80 kilometers in diameter.[22] In about ten thousand years, clones of the orbit of Asbolus suggest that its perihelion classification may come under the control of Jupiter.He provoked a bloodbath in which the centaurs Chiron and Pholus met their deaths at Heracles' hands.[24] No resolved images of it have ever been made, but in 1998 spectral analysis of its composition by the Hubble Space Telescope revealed a fresh impact crater on its surface, less than 10 million years old.
Discovered bySpacewatchDiscovery siteKitt Peak Obs.MPC designationΆσβολοςGreek mythologyAlternative designationsdistantcentaurSymbolOrbital characteristicsUncertainty parameterObservation arcAphelionPerihelionSemi-major axisEccentricityOrbital period (sidereal)Mean motionInclinationLongitude of ascending nodeTime of perihelionArgument of perihelionPhysical characteristicsMean diameterSynodic rotation periodGeometric albedoSpectral typeouter Solar SystemJupiterNeptuneJames ScottiKitt Peak ObservatoryAsbolusOrbital perturbationdynamical lifetimesperturbationskiloannumtrajectorygiant planetscometary7066 Nessusminor planetChironPholusHeracles2060 Chiron5145 Pholus5143 HeraclesM.P.C.spectral analysisHubble Space Telescopeimpact craterCentaurssolar radiationsolar windJet Propulsion LaboratorySpringer Berlin HeidelbergJPL HorizonsBibcodeMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyWayback MachineJPL Small-Body Database8406 IwaokusanoSmall Solar System bodiesMinor planetsDesignationGroupsMeanings of namesAsteroidActiveAten asteroidAsteroid beltFamilyJupiter trojanNear-EarthSpectral typesDistant minor planetNeptune trojanDamocloidTrans-Neptunian objectDetachedKuiper beltOort cloudScattered discCometsExtinctHalley-typeHyperbolicLong-periodNear-parabolicPeriodicSungrazingCosmic dustMeteoroidsSpace debris