(556416) 2014 OE394 (provisional designation 2014 OE394) is a large classical Kuiper belt object that was discovered in July 2014 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope, and announced on 17 July 2016. It is one of the brighter trans-Neptunian objects, being the 34th brightest cubewano as of 23 July 2016. Its exact size is unknown, but is most likely between 240 and 730 kilometers across.
2014 OE394 was observed by the New Horizons probe in September 2017 and August 2018. It passed close by: about 8.7 AU away on 1 January 2017, and 7.5 AU on 1 January 2019.
See also
- (119951) 2002 KX14, one of the largest cold classical Kuiper belt objects
References
External links
- (556416) 2014 OE394 at the JPL Small-Body Database
