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(87269) 2000 OO67

trans-Neptunian object

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ157551 ↗
Source-derived summary

(87269) 2000 OO67 is a trans-Neptunian object, approximately 64 kilometers (40 miles) 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. 2000 OO67 came to perihelion in April 2005.

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“(87269) 2000 OO67” enters the record as trans-Neptunian object. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what OO67, trans-Neptunian and object can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “(87269) 2000 OO67” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.