19521 CHAOS


'19521 Chaos' (formerly known as ) is a cubewano, a Kuiper belt object not in resonance with any planet. Chaos was discovered in 1998 by the Deep Ecliptic Survey, with Kitt Peak's 4 m telescope. It is large at about 560 km, and bright at H=4.755. It is named after the primeval state of existence in Greek mythology, from which the first gods appeared.

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Trivia


A rock group from Connecticut called 19521 Chaos took their name from the cubewano.

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Catchall Catalog of Minor Planets

original MPEC circular 1998-X08and the revision, 1999-V03

AstDys

JPL neo page

The Bands Official Myspace Page
Size comparison between Earth's Moon and several large TNOs, including Chaos


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