(8709) Kadlu Amor
Discovered on 14 May 1994 by Shoemaker, C. S., Shoemaker, E. M. at Palomar.
The Eskimo thunder-goddess was originally a little girl who played so noisily that her parents told her and her sisters to go outside to play. They did, and they invented a game in which Kadlu jumped on hollow ice, causing a thunderous sound. Transported to the sky, the goddess lived in a whale-bone house far in the west. Some legends say that Kadlu made thunder by rubbing dry sealskins together, or by singing.Naming citation (19980808/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kadlu is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kadlu is 1.27 au from the Sun and 1.80 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 8709 |
| Provisional designation | 1994 JF1 |
| Orbit class | Amor · near-Earth |
| Rotation period | 50.6 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 17.1 |
| Orbital period | 4.00 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.52 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.27 – 3.77 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.495 |
| Inclination | 3.54° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.259 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.