Xiangliu (moon)

<p>Xiangliu, full designation 225088 Gonggong I Xiangliu, is the only known <a href="/facts/Minor-planet_moon/hIzB5S7X">moon</a> of the <a href="/facts/Scattered_disc/cYWDkWUL">scattered-disc</a> <a href="/facts/Dwarf_planet/IkQoCdwD">dwarf planet</a> <a href="/facts/Gonggong_(dwarf_planet)/rw0CUIPQ">Gonggong</a>. It was discovered by a team of astronomers led by Csaba Kiss during an analysis of archival <a href="/facts/Hubble_Space_Telescope/NQeIf0vw">Hubble Space Telescope</a> images of Gonggong. The discovery team had suspected that the <a href="/facts/Slow_rotator_(minor_planet)/nMHAmwfh">slow rotation</a> of Gonggong was caused by <a href="/facts/Tidal_force/GJgxo7gp">tidal forces</a> exerted by an orbiting satellite. Xiangliu was first identified in archival Hubble images taken with Hubble's <a href="/facts/Wide_Field_Camera_3/XPTKFGBx">Wide Field Camera 3</a> on 18 September 2010. Its discovery was reported and announced by <a href="/facts/G%25C3%25A1bor_Marton_(astronomer)/R4tIAzYJ">Gábor Marton</a>, Csaba Kiss, and Thomas Müller at the 48th Meeting of the <a href="/facts/Division_for_Planetary_Sciences/BkhA6NU3">Division for Planetary Sciences</a> on 17 October 2016. The satellite is named after <a href="/facts/Xiangliu/3TEh2MQF">Xiangliu</a>, a nine-headed venomous snake monster in <a href="/facts/Chinese_mythology/PHsPHqdj">Chinese mythology</a> that attended the water god <a href="/facts/Gonggong/s8oPN9fa">Gonggong</a> as his chief minister.
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Xiangliu (moon) open-in-new

Xiangliu (moon)