15810 Arawn (provisional designation 1994 JR1) is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) from the inner regions of the Kuiper belt, approximately 133 kilometres (83 mi) in diameter.
It was named after Arawn, the ruler of the Otherworld in Welsh mythology, and was discovered on 12 May 1994, by astronomers Michael Irwin and Anna Żytkow with the 2.5-metre Isaac Newton Telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in the Canary Islands, Spain.
[7] On 2 November 2015, Arawn was imaged by the LORRI instrument aboard New Horizons, and was therefore 1/15 the distance of the previous nearest observation of a Kuiper belt object other than the Pluto–Charon system.
[18] Between 7–8 April 2016, New Horizons imaged Arawn from a new record distance of about 111 million kilometres, using the LORRI instrument.
The new images allowed the science team at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado, to further pinpoint the location of Arawn to within 1000 kilometers.
[9] On 15 April 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) conducted an observation of the Kuiper Belt object Arawn for a duration of 1 minute and 4 seconds using its NIRCam instrument in Moving Target mode with published findings expected at a later date.