page_title: 88611 Teharonhiawako
hierarchical_section_title: 88611 Teharonhiawako
caption_attribution_description: English: Hubble Space Telescope image of the cubewano 88611 Teharonhiawako and its companion Sawiskera, taken on 15 November 2010
context_page_description: 88611 Teharonhiawako, or Teharonhiawako-Sawiskera as a binary, is a trans-Neptunian object and a member of the cold classical Kuiper belt, measuring about 220 km in diameter. It is a binary object, with a large companion named Sawiskera, which at 126 km in diameter is about two-thirds the size of its primary.
  Teharonhiawako was discovered on August 20, 2001, by the Deep Ecliptic Survey, and Sawiskera was identified a month later. The primary is named after Teharonhia꞉wako, a god of maize in the Iroquois creation myth, while the secondary is named after his evil twin brother Sawiskera. The objects were named in 2007.
  Sawiskera's orbit has the following parameters: semi-major-axis—27670 ± 120 km, period—828.76 ± 0.22 days, eccentricity—0.2494 ± 0.0021 and inclination—144.42 ± 0.35°. The total system mass is about 2.4 × 10¹⁸ kg.
context_section_description: 88611 Teharonhiawako, or (88611) Teharonhiawako-Sawiskera as a binary, is a trans-Neptunian object and a member of the cold classical Kuiper belt, measuring about 220 km in diameter. It is a binary object, with a large companion named Sawiskera (formally designated (88611) Teharonhiawako I Sawiskera), which at 126 km in diameter is about two-thirds the size of its  primary.
  Teharonhiawako was discovered on August 20, 2001, by the Deep Ecliptic Survey, and Sawiskera was identified a month later. The primary is named after Teharonhia꞉wako, a god of maize in the Iroquois creation myth, while the secondary is named after his evil twin brother Sawiskera. The objects were named in 2007.
  Sawiskera's orbit has the following parameters: semi-major-axis—27670 ± 120 km, period—828.76 ± 0.22 days, eccentricity—0.2494 ± 0.0021 and inclination—144.42 ± 0.35°(retrograde). The total system mass is about 2.4 × 10¹⁸ kg.
caption: Hubble Space Telescope image of Teharonhiawako and its companion Sawiskera, taken in 2010
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