Moon
One of Pluto's small outer moons, tumbling chaotically due to the complex gravity of the Pluto-Charon binary system.
| Type | Moon |
|---|---|
| Orbits | Pluto |
| Distance from parent body | 48,690 km |
| Diameter | 36 km |
| Mass | 2.25 × 10^16 kg |
| Surface gravity | 3.00e-3 m/s² |
| Temperature | -229°C |
| Orbital period | 25 days |
| Rotation period | 43.9 hours |
| Apparent magnitude | 23.4 |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Discovered | 2005 |
At 36 km across, Nix is 1.0 percent of the diameter of Earth's Moon.
Its mass is less than a thousandth of the mass of Earth.
It orbits Pluto at 48,690 km, closer in than the Moon orbits Earth.
A single orbit takes 24.9 days.
An average temperature of 44 K works out at -229 degrees Celsius, colder than the 15 degrees Earth averages.
It has been on record since 2005.
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