(148209) 2000 CR105
is a trans-Neptunian object. Considered a detached object, it orbits the Sun in a highly eccentric orbit every 3,305 years at an average distance of 222 astronomical units.
Description
Mike Brown's website lists it with a diameter of based on an assumed albedo of 0.04. The albedo is expected to be low because the object has a blue color. However, if the albedo is higher, the object could easily be half that size.and Sedna differ from scattered-disc objects in that they are not within the gravitational influence of the planet Neptune even at their perihelion distances. It is something of a mystery as to how these objects came to be in their current, far-flung orbits. Several hypotheses have been put forward:
- They were pulled from their original positions by a passing star.
- They were pulled from their original positions by a very distant, and as-yet-undiscovered, giant planet.
- They were pulled from their original positions by an undiscovered companion star orbiting the Sun such as Nemesis.
- They were captured from another planetary system during a close encounter early in the Sun's history. According to Kenyon and Bromley, there is a 15% probability that a star like the Sun had an early close encounter and a 1% probability that outer planetary exchanges would have happened. is estimated to be 2–3 times more likely to be a captured planetary object than Sedna.