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20461 Dioretsa
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<p>20461 Dioretsa /daɪ.əˈrɛtsə/ is a <a href="/facts/Centaur_(minor_planet)/jXpnm7dv">centaur</a> and <a href="/facts/Damocloid/HWYYcEhU">damocloid</a> on a <a href="/facts/Retrograde_orbit/1HCbwQqy">retrograde</a>, <a href="/facts/Comet/w34utQCd">cometary</a>-like orbit from the <a href="/facts/Outer_Solar_System/QIcLSazQ">outer Solar System</a>. It was discovered on 8 June 1999, by members of the <a href="/facts/Lincoln_Near-Earth_Asteroid_Research/UYDsd6Vr">LINEAR</a> team at the <a href="/facts/Lincoln_Laboratory_Experimental_Test_Site/ea2JwxzT">Lincoln Laboratory Experimental Test Site</a> near Socorro, New Mexico, United States. The highly eccentric <a href="/facts/Unusual_minor_planet/ujRASlnu">unusual object</a> measures approximately 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) in diameter. It was named <i>dioretsa</i>, an <a href="/facts/Anadrome/de51UjE4">anadrome</a> of "asteroid". </p>