Kurato
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| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
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| Epoch A2000 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 244410 km (151870 mi) | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 219360 km (136300 mi) | ||||||||||||
| 231887 km (144088 mi) | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | ~0.054021 | ||||||||||||
| 13.4711 d (323.31 h) | |||||||||||||
Average orbital speed | 1.249 km/s (0.776 mi/s) | ||||||||||||
| Inclination | 10.3670° (to Stratos's equator) 1.3524° (to the ecliptic) | ||||||||||||
| Satellite of | Stratos | ||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
Equatorial radius | 1124.0 km (698.4 mi) | ||||||||||||
Polar radius | 1123.2 km (697.9 mi) | ||||||||||||
| Flattening | ~.0006441 | ||||||||||||
| Circumference | 7059.787 km (4386.748 mi) (mean) | ||||||||||||
| 15,865,000km2 (6,125,000 mi2) | |||||||||||||
| Volume | 5.94188 × 109 km3 | ||||||||||||
| Mass | 2.2812 × 1022 kg | ||||||||||||
Mean density | 3.8392 g/cm3 | ||||||||||||
| 1.2059 m/s2 | |||||||||||||
| 1.646 km/s (1.023 mi/s) | |||||||||||||
Sidereal rotation period | synchronous | ||||||||||||
| 2.02° | |||||||||||||
| Albedo | 0.234 Bond | ||||||||||||
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| 0.55524° (From Stratoshian surface) | |||||||||||||
Kurato, or Stratos II, is the larger of the two significant moons of Stratos, with an orbital period of just shorter than 13 and a half days around the planet.
Formation
Kurato is thought to have originated as a small planetoid within the inner Tendor System, likely at around a distance of 2-2.1 AU. It is believed that the migration of Aurious towards the inner system would have disturbed its previously circular orbit and shifted it into a more elliptical orbit, which after a few million years landed it within the influence of Stratos, henceforth capturing it as a moon.
The hypothesis came to be given the fact that the moon has an inclination more similar to that of the ecliptic than that of Stratos and Loftuslo, a composition comparatively dissimilar with Stratos and Loftuslo, and that the hypothesis explains the distinct lack of planets in between Anteria and Stratos.
Physical Characteristics
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Surface Geology
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Orbit and Rotation
Kurato is tidally locked to Stratos, similar to that of Loftuslo, and completes an orbit around the planet about every 13.5 days. Curiously, the moon has a relatively large axial tilt for a tidally locked moon, even moreso than the Moon, making for slight variations in which portions of the moon's surface can be seen on the Stratoshian surface.
Habitability
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