cubewano
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Kuiper belt object, not controlled by an orbital resonance with Neptune
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- Kuiper Belt
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- 15760 Albion
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486958 Arrokoth, the first classical Kuiper belt object visited by a spacecraft. The orbits of various cubewanos compared to the orbit of Neptune (blue) and Pluto (magenta)
A classical Kuiper belt object, also called a cubewano (/ˌkjuːbiːˈwʌnoʊ/ "QB1-o"), is a low-eccentricity Kuiper belt object (KBO) that orbits beyond Neptune and is not controlled by an orbital resonance with Neptune. Cubewanos have orbits with semi-major axes in the 40–50 AU range and, unlike Pluto, do not cross Neptune's orbit. That is, they have low-eccentricity and sometimes low-inclination orbits like the classical planets.
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