(434620) 2005 VD

(434620) 2005 VD, provisional designation 2005 VD, is a centaur and damocloid on a retrograde orbit from the outer Solar System, known for having the second most highly inclined orbit of any small Solar System body, behind 2013 LA2.

The unusual object measures approximately 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) in diameter.

[1] Precovery images have been found by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) from September 2005 and December 2001.

[2] Both the Deep Ecliptic Survey (DES),[3] and the Minor Planet Center (MPC)[7] have listed it as a centaur (qmin=~5AU) at different epochs.

[2] Being a highly dynamic object, even among centaurs, 2005 VD's orbit has visibly changed even since its discovery.

2005 VD has a semi-major axis greater than Jupiter and almost crosses the orbit of Jupiter when near perihelion .