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20000 Varuna20000 Varuna ("VAR oo na") is a Kuiper Belt object about 1060 kilometers in diameter, estimated from a combination of thermal and optical measurements. Little is known about Varuna. It has a rotational period of approximately 3.17 hours (or 6.34 hours, depending on whether the light curve is single or double-peaked). It has a density of approximately 1 g/cm3 (as dense as water), which implies that it may not be a fully solid body http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~jewitt/papers/VARUNA2/JS2002.pdf. It is named after the Hindu god Varuna. It previously had the provisional designation 2000 WR106. External links - http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/varuna.html
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