88611 Teharonhiawako

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88611 Teharonhiawako (Mohawk, approximately de-ha-LOON-hee-a-WAA-go), or provisionally , is a trans-Neptunian object and a member of the Kuiper belt. It has a large moon Sawiskera, which at 108-136 km in diameter is comparable to the 156-196 km of its primary.

The object was discovered on August 20, 2001 by the Deep Ecliptic Survey. Teharonhiawako and Sawiskera are named after two brothers in the Iroquois creation myth.

References

1 http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/tnoslist.html
2 http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/TNOs.html

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