Varuna20000 Varuna ("VAIR uh nuh") is a Kuiper Belt object about 1060 kilometers in diameter, estimated from a combination of thermal and optical measurements.
Little is known about Varuna. It has a rotational period of approximately 3.17 hours (or 6.34 hours, depending on whether the light curve is single or double-peaked). It has a density of approximately 1 g/cm3 (as dense as water), which implies that it may not be a fully solid body [1] (http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~jewitt/papers/VARUNA2/JS2002.pdf). It is named after the Hindu god Varuna. It previously had the systematic name 2000 WR106. External linksde:Varuna (Asteroid) sl:20000 Varuna Categories: Trans-Neptunian objects |
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