SpazeDwarf planet, scattered disc
Gonggong
A deep red world on a slow, stretched orbit, named after a Chinese water god. It has a small moon, Xiangliu.
- Size
- 1,230 km
- Orbit
- 547.2 years
- Distance from Sun
- 33.1 to 100.6 AU
- Day
- 22.4 hours
Can we live on Gonggong?
Air: none to speak of. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.
Ground: Water ice and methane, one of the reddest bodies known.
Atmosphere
- None to speak of
Measured by Hubble, Keck