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Beyond Jupiter - The World of Distant Minor Planets: (5335) Damocles
JOA 2023, Vol. 13, No. 2, Page 20 Author(s): Oliver KlösAbstract: (5335) Damocles is a small object with orbital parameters similar to long period comets. It is suspected to be an inactive nucleus of a former comet and it is now the namesake of a class of objects of its own - the Damocloids. The asteroid / extinct comet is on its way towards the inner Solar System and will reach its next perihelion in 2031. Due to outdated astrometric observations of (5335) Damocles, predictions of future stellar occultations are currently not reliable. An astrometric observing campaign around the transit through its next perhelion could provide new orbital data for predictions of stellar occultations.