{"id":514295,"date":"2018-08-27T12:21:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T16:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/search.jsp?R=20180004111"},"modified":"2018-08-27T12:21:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T16:21:27","slug":"2004-tt357-a-potential-contact-binary-in-the-trans-neptunian-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=514295","title":{"rendered":"2004 TT357: A Potential Contact Binary in the Trans-Neptunian Belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: We report photometric observations of the trans-Neptunian object 2004 TT(sub 357) obtained in 2015 and 2017 using the 4.3 m Lowell&#8217;s Discovery Channel Telescope. We derive a rotational period of 7.79 +\/- 0.01 hr and a peak-to-peak lightcurve amplitude of 0.76 +\/- 0.03 mag. 2004 TT(sub 357) displays a large variability that can be explained by a very elongated single object or can be due to a contact\/close binary. The most likely scenario is that 2004 TT(sub 357) is a contact binary. If it is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: We report photometric observations of the trans-Neptunian object 2004 TT(sub 357) obtained in 2015 and 2017 using the 4.3 m Lowell&#8217;s Discovery Channel Telescope. We derive a rotational period of 7.79 +\/- 0.01 hr and a peak-to-peak lightcurve &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514296,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514295\/revisions\/514296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}