Vanth

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The path of Vanth round Orcus, seen from above and drawn to scale, with the white dot at its nearest point. Orbit from NASA/JPL Horizons, solution for this moon's orbit.

Kind: Moon of Orcus
Distance: 8,975 km from Orcus on average
Once round: 9.539 days
Path: very nearly a circle (eccentricity 0.0015), tilted 89.8°
Size: 443 km across, 12.7 per cent of our Moon’s width
Found: 2005, by M. E. Brown and T.-A. Suer, Hubble Space Telescope

Orcus On the atlas In 3D

Vanth, our Moon and Orcus, drawn to one scale from their measured sizes, as plain discs.

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What it looks like up close
What it is made of
How it was found
Spacecraft that have seen it
What is still unknown

Sources: NASA/JPL Horizons, solution for this moon's orbit; NASA/JPL Horizons, physical data for this moon.