Resolution criteria

This market will resolve to YES if, by 11:59 PM UTC on December 31, 2040, the trans-Neptunian object currently designated 2014 UZ224 has been assigned both a permanent minor planet number and an official proper name by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Otherwise, this market will resolve to NO.

To verify resolution:

• The permanent number and official name must be reflected in the official IAU Minor Planet Center (MPC) Database or the NASA JPL Small-Body Database Lookup.

• The informal nickname "DeeDee" does not count as an official proper name. The name must be officially approved by the IAU Working Group Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSB) (or its succeeding body) and recorded as the formal name of the object.

• If by the deadline, the object has been numbered but not named, or if it remains unnumbered, the market resolves to NO.

Background

2014 UZ224 is a large trans-Neptunian object (TNO) in the Kuiper Belt, discovered in 2014 by a team led by David Gerdes using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam). It is a dwarf planet candidate with an estimated diameter of about 635 kilometers and a highly eccentric orbit taking approximately 1,100 years to complete.

Due to its extreme distance (currently ~92 AU) and slow motion, establishing a highly precise orbit is a lengthy process. The MPC only assigns a permanent catalog number once an orbit is sufficiently secured to guarantee the object won't be lost. Under IAU rules, discoverers have the exclusive right to propose a name only after the object has been permanently numbered. Currently, the object is informally nicknamed "DeeDee" (short for "Distant Dwarf") but remains officially unnumbered and unnamed.

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