15760 Albion
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15760-albion-248-11711863
title:
15760 Albion
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15760 Albion (provisional designation 1992 QB1) was the first trans-Neptunian object to be discovered after Pluto and Charon. Measuring about 108–167 kilometres in diameter, it was discovered in 1992 by David C. Jewitt and Jane X. Luu at the Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii. After the discovery, they dubbed the object "Smiley" and it was shortly hailed as the tenth planet by the press. It is a "cold" classical Kuiper belt object and gave rise to the name cubewano for this kind of object, after the
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Trans-Neptunian object, prototype of cubewanos
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15760_Albion
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2024-01-19T01:08:15Z
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