Dwarf-system satellite
Xiangliu
Gonggong’s small companion on an elongated orbit.
Xiangliu is faint and distant, but its orbit helps constrain the total mass of the Gonggong system. The available source set supports a representative eccentric path rather than a complete pole solution.
- Orbit representation
- Representative mean elements
- Surface
- procedural reconstruction
Reference measurements
The numbers that shape this world
- Mean radius
- 50 km
- Mean orbital distance
- 24,020 km
- Orbital period
- 25.22 days
- Eccentricity
- 0.29
- Inclination
- UnresolvedRepresentative parent-equatorial visual plane; source-backed pole unresolved
- Orbit plane
- Representative
System portrait
Useful measurements at the edge of visibility
The page is deliberately honest about what is known: mean scale, period and eccentricity are useful, while the full three-dimensional orientation is not asserted.
System geometry
Xiangliu around Gonggong
Xiangliu orbits at a mean distance of 24,020 km with a period of 25.22 days. Its catalogued eccentricity is 0.29, and the orbital inclination is not asserted relative to Representative parent-equatorial visual plane; source-backed pole unresolved. Missing angular orientation stays explicitly representative.
Representation notes
What Explore is showing
A representative eccentric orbit is shown; pole and longitude are not asserted.
Reference-guided visual reconstruction based on cited mission records; no source raster is reproduced.
Provenance