Natural Satellite

Nix

Nix is currently about 5,193,953,625 kilometres from Earth, or 34.72 astronomical units, which puts a one-way radio signal 4.8 hours out. It is 35.59 astronomical units from the Sun.

Pluto Moon Nix, Half Illuminated
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute, Public domain (NASA). Source.

A small, elongated moon of Pluto that tumbles chaotically as it orbits the Pluto-Charon pair.

Its rotation is chaotic, with no fixed day length.

Right now

Distance from Earth
5,193,953,625 km (34.72 AU)
Distance from the Sun
5,324,252,603 km (35.59 AU)
One-way signal time
4.8 hours

The body

Mean radius
19 km
Orbital radius
48,694 km
Orbital period
25 days
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