Rutherford

Mandrake & Rutherford with its four little moons, as seen from an observatory on Mesbin. Rutherford is the larger, rightwards blue object.

Name: Rutherford

Designation: Kaywell Bb I

Discovery (Mesbin): Direct Telescopic Imaging

Rutherford is one of the smaller giant planets known, with a mass barely greater than Derbin's. Under some definitions, Rutherford is a satellite, but its discoverers Mandrake and Rutherford Kerman maintain that Rutherford is more of a binary planet, as the two objects rotate around a common point in space called the Mandrake/Rutherford Barycenter. Like Mandrake, Rutherford is thought to be composed not just of hydrogen and helium, but heavier volatiles like water and methane. It is not as blue as Mandrake.

Physical Properties

• Radius = 2,197,500 meters = 0.3449 Earth Radii = 3.6625 Kerbin Radii
• Mass = 6.4843e23 kg = 0.1086 Earth Masses = 12.254 Kerbin Masses
• Surface Gravity = 0.913 G
• Albedo = 0.3
• Rotation Period = 140207.249 Seconds = 1 day, 14 hours, 56 minutes, 47.249 seconds

Orbital Properties

• Parent Body = Mandrake
• Semi Major Axis = 58,298,508 meters = 16.48 Mandrake Radii = 26.53 Rutherford Radii
• Orbital Period = 140207.249 Seconds = 1 day, 14 hours, 56 minutes, 47.249 seconds
• Eccentricity = 0.07
• Inclination = 0.23°
• Argument of Periapsis = 180°
• Longitude of Ascending Node = 1.2°
• Mean Anomaly At Epoch = 321°

Atmospheric Properties

Rutherford: a small cold ice giant.

Composition:

• Hydrogen 80%
• Helium 18.918%
• Methane 1%
• Ammonia 0.06%
• Water 0.022%

Cloud Layers:

• 3-10 atm: Ammonia and Hydrogen Sulfide clouds.
• 1-2 atm: Thin methane clouds.

Other:

• Pressure: 15 atm
• Atmosphere Limit: 533,000 meters
• Temperature (Lowest): 97 K