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| Orbital parametres | ||||
| Distance from centre of galaxy | 260,000 million million km |
(28,000 light years) | ||
| Orbital period | 240 million years | |||
| Rotational period | 27 days | |||
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Average orbital velocity |
250 km per second | |||
| Axial tilt (obliquity) | 7.25 degrees | |||
| Physical Properties | ||||
| Equatorial radius | 695,950 km | (109.24 x Earth) | ||
| Mass | 1.989 x1030 kg | (332,981 x Earth) | ||
| Volume | 1.41 x1018 km3 | (1.3 million x Earth) | ||
| Average density | 1,408 kg/m3 | (0.255 x Earth) | ||
| Surface gravity at equator | 274.0 m/s2 | (28.02 x Earth) | ||
| Escape velocity | 617.6 km/s | (55.14 x Earth) | ||
| Solar surface output | 63,167,000 Watts/m2 | |||
| Surface temperature | 5,780 K | 5,507oC) | ||
| Maximum visual magnitude | -26.78 | More about orbits | ||
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