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Gonggong

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The path of Gonggong round the Sun, seen from above and drawn to scale, with the white dot at its nearest point. The faint rings are the paths of Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Orbit from NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.

Kind: Dwarf planet
Distance: 66.87 au from the Sun on average
Once round: 546.8 years
Path: a long oval (eccentricity 0.504), tilted 30.9°
Size: 1,230 km across

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What it looks like
What it is made of
How it was found and named
Its moons, if any
What is still unknown

Sources: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database; Kiss et al. 2019, Icarus 334, 3 (heat measured by the Herschel telescope).