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Distant minor planet

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Minor planets orbiting in the outer Solar system beyond Jupiter
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populations – are excluded from the distant minor planets.
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Orbital Plot – locations and orbits of distant objects
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Index

distant minor planets
Centaurs
Neptune trojans
Trans-Neptunian objects
Kuiper belt objects
Classical KBOs
Resonant KBOs
Plutinos
Twotinos
Scattered disc objects
Resonant SDOs
Extreme trans-Neptunian object
Detached objects
Sednoids
Oort cloud objects
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minor planet
Jupiter
outer Solar System
asteroid
IAU
Minor Planet Center
trans-Neptunian objects
centaurs
damocloids
Neptune trojans
Uranus trojans
semi-major axis

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