It sits quite far from the ozone blue tyrant and its chlorine moon, but at one astronomical unit from the sun it ranges in temperature from 263 K (-10.15°C) on its sun facing side to 270K (-3.15°C) on its dark side.
So what do we call this unusual little moon? Hoth?
Note(15 April): An Albedo of 0.12 rates as worn Asphalt implying this carbon rich planet passed very close to the sun. The entire range of albedo for it could be as low as 0.08 for conifers to 0.18 for deciduous trees. Fresh Asphalt would be much darker down at 0.04 Albedo. At least we know it hasnt been close to the sun recently. So if this is an indicator of time away from the sun, then perhaps the planet X group will pass up through the solar plane between us and the sun in about seventy five years.
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| Albedo 0.2 |
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| Albedo 0.19 |
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| Albedo 0.18 |
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| Albedo 0.12 |
And there is our dark little moon. The temperature range makes it practically habitable.
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