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2012 DR30 (2009 FW54) is a minor planet (trans-Neptunian object or extended centaur) from the scattered disk/Oort cloud. It has the third-largest heliocentric semi-major axis of a minor planet not detected out-gassing like a comet. (Both 2013 BL76 and 2005 VX3 have larger heliocentric semi-major axes.) 2012 DR30 does have a barycentric semi-major axis of 1035 AU.2012 DR30 came to perihelion in March 2011 at a distance of 14.5 AU from the Sun (inside the orbit of Uranus).

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