KBO Recovery

Kevin Jenks, Justin Parish, Greyson Daugherty

Kuiper Belt Objects

• Found 30-55 AU

• Asteroids

• Made of mostly ICE • Slow Orbital Periods

~300-500 years

2005 EO304• Discovered on March of 2005.

• Discovered to be a binary object April 2005.

• e= .06 (ellipse)

• Distance = 45.1 AU (306.8 LMin)

• Inclination = 3.4°

• MR= 22.5

• Rate of Motion = .3”/hr

Follow Up observations

• 60” Cassegrain

• 4096X4096 CCD

Camera

• Four Nights of Imaging

References

• Susan Kern

• Caitlin Casey