Varuna
20000 Varuna (2000 WR106)
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Physical data
- Diameter
- 900 km
- Rotation period
- 6.3436 hours
- Albedo
- 0.07
- Absolute magnitude H
- 3.79 mag
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- TNO — TransNeptunian Object
- Semi-major axis
- 43.2 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0516
- Inclination
- 17.1°
- Perihelion distance
- 41 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 45.4 AU
- Orbital period
- 104,000 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2427878.216
- Earth MOID
- 40 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- Its diameter is about 7% of Earth's (radius 450 km ÷ Earth's 6,371 km).
- One orbit takes about 104,000 Earth days (about 284.7 years).
- Sunlight needs about 6 hours to reach it on average (semi-major axis 43.2 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.