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Goibniu
Asteroid · Classical Kuiper belt object
About Goibniu
On 2026-01-01, the date the map shows, Goibniu was 40 AU from the Sun; sunlight takes 5.54 hours to reach it.
It goes round the Sun once every 270.8 years, at an average distance of 41.861 AU.
The map lists it as an asteroid (trans-Neptunian object) and shows it in the Solar System part of the map, drawn on the plane of Earth’s orbit (the ecliptic).
Key numbers
| Class | Trans-Neptunian object |
|---|---|
| Semi-major axis | 41.861 AU |
| Orbital period | 270.8 years |
| Eccentricity | 0.0770 |
| Inclination | 22.03° |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 3.96 |
| Diameter | ≈ 678 km (estimated from brightness) |
| Distance from the Sun | 40 AU |
Where it is
Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Solar System › Orion–Cygnus Arm (Local Arm) › Milky Way › Local Group › Virgo Supercluster › Laniakea Supercluster › Observable universe.
Zoom out to see it in context: Neptune and the Kuiper belt, a view about 110 AU across.
From Wikipedia
90568 Goibniu (provisional designation 2004 GV9) is a large trans-Neptunian object that was discovered in 2004 by the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking survey at Palomar Observatory.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article 90568 Goibniu, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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