(87269) 2000 OO67

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**' (provisional designation **') is a trans-Neptunian object, approximately 64 km in diameter, on a highly eccentric orbit in the outermost region of the Solar System. It was discovered by astronomers at the Chilean Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory on 29 July 2000.

Description

At aphelion it is over 1,000 AU from the Sun and, with a perihelion of 21 AU, almost crosses the orbit of Uranus at closest approach. Astronomers with the Deep Ecliptic Survey classify it as a centaur rather than a trans-Neptunian object. came to perihelion in April 2005. Both and are calculated to take longer than Sedna to orbit the Sun using either heliocentric coordinates or barycentric coordinates.

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