Saturday, 31 May 2014

(19255) 1994 VK8, internet protocols that fragment the information into data packets

(19255) 1994 VK8 is a classical Kuiper belt object discovered in November of 1994. It has a perihelion of 41.6 AU and an aphelion of 44.5 AU. It has an inclination of 1.5º. It has a diameter of about 175 km.

The discovery of the object 1994 VK8 coincided with the movie "Pulp Fiction" (1994) and the photometric observations coincided with movie "Memento" (2000). These two movies were original because the story was told through chronologically disordered chapters, so at the end of the movie the viewer had to reconstruct all of them.

The object 1994 VK8 is related with internet protocols that fragment the information of a message into data packets that are sent separately and mend at destination.