page_title: (120216) 2004 EW95
section_title: Orbit
hierarchical_section_title: (120216) 2004 EW95 / Orbit
caption_attribution_description: The orbit of (120216) 2004 EW95 compared to Pluto and Neptune. This small plutino is currently well inside the orbit of Neptune even though its orbit is dominated by Neptune.
context_page_description: (120216) 2004 EW₉₅, provisionally known as 2004 EW₉₅, is a resonant trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper belt located in the outermost regions of the Solar System. It measures approximately 291 kilometers in diameter. It has more carbon than typical of KBOs, and the first to be confirmed as having this composition in this region of space. It is thought that it had originated closer to the Sun, maybe even the main asteroid belt.
context_section_description: Like Pluto, 2004 EW₉₅ is classified as a plutino. It stays in a 2:3 resonance with Neptune.  For every 2 orbits that a plutino makes, Neptune orbits 3 times.
  2004 EW₉₅ is currently 27.0 AU from the Sun, and came to perihelion (q=26.98 AU) in April 2018.  This means that this object is currently inside the orbit of the planet Neptune.  Like Pluto, this plutino spends part of its orbit closer to the Sun than Neptune is even though their orbits are controlled by Neptune. (Probable dwarf planet Huya and plutino (15875) 1996 TP66 are also currently inside the orbit of Neptune.) Simulations by the Deep Ecliptic Survey (DES) show that over the next 10 million years 2004 EW₉₅ can acquire a perihelion distance (qₘᵢₙ) as small as 24.6 AU.
  It comes within 9 AU (1.3 billion km) of Uranus and stays more than 21 AU from Neptune over a 14,000 year period. 2004 EW₉₅ has been observed 158 times with an observation arc of 13 years and has an orbit quality of 2.
caption: 2004 EW95 is currently well inside the orbit of Neptune.
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