307261 Máni (provisional designation 2002 MS4) is a large trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy planetesimals beyond Neptune. It was discovered on 18 June 2002 by Chad Trujillo and Michael Brown during their search for Pluto-sized Kuiper belt objects at Palomar Observatory, and went unnamed until 2025, when it was named after the personification of the Moon in German mythology.
307261 Máni (provisional designation 2002 MS4) is a large trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy planetesimals beyond Neptune. It was discovered on 18 June 2002 by Chad Trujillo and Michael Brown during their search for Pluto-sized Kuiper belt objects at Palomar Observatory, and went unnamed until 2025, when it was named after the personification of the Moon in German mythology.
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