Dwarf planet
Orcus
Orcus is a dwarf planet beyond Neptune.
It keeps Pluto’s rhythm, two laps of the Sun for every three of Neptune’s, but in the opposite phase: when Pluto is closest in, Orcus is farthest out.
See it live
Where it is right now is on the live 3D map.
Key facts
- Catalogue
- 90482 Orcus
- Diameter
- 910 km
- One lap of the Sun
- 247 years
- Closest to the Sun
- 30.69 au
- Farthest from the Sun
- 48.1 au
- Moons
- Vanth
How the map draws it
Drawn as a plain round body of its measured size — the kind of thing, not this exact one.