About Puck
Puck is an uncommon moon.
It orbits about 19.19 AU from the Sun — roughly 19.2 times Earth's distance.
Uncommon moon 30 EP
Puck
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Score breakdown
· 3 badgesUncommon 34 pts → Rare
- Moon +16
- Has a proper name +8
- Tidally locked +6
Total score 30
4 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
- Moon · +16
- Has a proper name · +8
- Tidally locked · +6
Trivia
Hard to believe
- A frantic orbit. It laps its entire planet in under a day — 18.3 hours — which is faster than most planets even turn on their axis.
What it actually is
- Its address. It orbits about 19.19 AU from the Sun — roughly 19.2 times Earth's distance.
- Around its planet. It circles its planet at a distance of 86 thousand km — about 22% of the Earth–Moon gap — coming right round once every 18.3 hours.
Sense of scale
- Ground to cover. Its whole surface adds up to about 82.4 thousand km² — roughly 52.4 times the area of Greater London.
- Walk around it. Walking right round its equator, eight hours a day, would take about 12.7 days.
Time and light
- Sunrise is late. Sunlight takes about 2.7 hours to get there, against eight minutes to reach us.
Standing on it
- Sunlight there. Sunlight is about 368 times weaker there than at Earth.
- A year here. It rides around the Sun with its planet, one full lap every 84 Earth years.
Properties
- color
- #8e8d8b
- diameter km
- 162
- name
- Puck
- named
- yes
- radius km
- 81
- tidally locked
- yes
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, Puck is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. Because it moves against the background stars, the live position panel on this page tracks where it is right now. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why Puck is an uncommon moon
Puck scores 30 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Moon, Has a proper name and Tidally locked — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.