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Orcus is a dwarf planet located in the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy bodies beyond Neptune's orbit. It matters because studying it helps scientists understand the composition and formation history of our solar system's outer regions.
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- Instance of
- dwarf planet
- Named after
- Orcus
- Follows
- 90481 Wollstonecraft
- Parent body
- Sun
- Child body
- Vanth
- Minor-planet group
- dwarf planet
- Diameter
- 910
- Radius
- 455
- Mass
- 6.348
- Orbital period
- 245.19
- Image
- Orcus-vanth hst2.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 2004-02-17
- Commons category
- 90482 Orcus
- discoverer or inventor
- David L. Rabinowitz
- provisional designation
- 2004 DW
- orbital inclination
- 20.573
- topic's main category
- Category:90482 Orcus
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.22618
- albedo
- 0.1975
- absolute magnitude
- 2.14
- mean anomaly
- 164.68
- argument of periapsis
- 72.474
- longitude of ascending node
- 268.722
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 39.1742376
- Unicode character
- 🝿
- periapsis
- 30.173511545766
- surface gravity
- 0.2
- density
- 1.4
- pronunciation
- ˈɔːrkəs
- apoapsis
- 48.067
- color index
- 0.37
- apparent magnitude
- 19.1
- time of periapsis
- 2504025.934923104425
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