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Mani
Asteroid · Classical Kuiper belt object
About Mani
On 2026-01-01, the date the map shows, Mani was 46 AU from the Sun; sunlight takes 6.38 hours to reach it.
It goes round the Sun once every 268.2 years, at an average distance of 41.589 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 | 41.589 AU |
| Orbital period | 268.2 years |
| Eccentricity | 0.1483 |
| Inclination | 17.70° |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 3.64 |
| Diameter | ≈ 786 km (estimated from brightness) |
| Distance from the Sun | 46 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
307261 Máni (provisional designation 2002 MS4) is a large trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy planetesimals beyond Neptune.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article 307261 Máni, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.