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52872 Okyrhoe

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Centaurs have short dynamical lives due to strong interactions with the giant planets. Okyrhoe is estimated to have an orbital half-life of about 670 thousand years. Of objects listed as a centaur by the Minor Planet Center (MPC), JPL, and the Deep Ecliptic Survey (DES), Okyrhoe has the second smallest perihelion distance of a numbered centaur. Numbered centaur (315898) 2008 QD4 has a smaller perihelion distance.

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