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Gonggong is known from the late Warring States period (before 221 BC). Gonggong appears in the ancient "Heavenly Questions" (Tianwen) poem of the Chu Ci, where he is blamed for knocking the Earth's axis off center, causing it to tilt to the southeast and the sky to tilt to the northwest. [2]
Gonggong (minor-planet designation: 225088 Gonggong) is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune.It has a highly eccentric and inclined orbit during which it ranges from 34–101 astronomical units (5.1–15.1 billion kilometers; 3.2–9.4 billion miles) from the Sun.
Xiangliu, full designation 225088 Gonggong I Xiangliu, is the only known moon of the scattered-disc dwarf planet Gonggong.It was discovered by a team of astronomers led by Csaba Kiss during an analysis of archival Hubble Space Telescope images of Gonggong.
On the other hand, the surfaces of Sedna, Gonggong, and Quaoar have low abundances of CO and CO 2, similar to Pluto, Eris, and Makemake but in contrast to smaller bodies. This suggests that the threshold for dwarf planethood in the trans-Neptunian region is a diameter of ~900 km (thus including only Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong ...
Gong Gong Quan (Maternal Grandfather Quan), a character from the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once; Alpha Gong Gong (Alpha-verse Grandfather), a character from the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once
A dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in direct orbit around the Sun, massive enough to be gravitationally rounded, but insufficient to achieve orbital dominance like the eight classical planets of the Solar System.
Gong Gong Gong performed their first show at the closing party for Beijing venue XP in summer 2015. Bassist Joshua Frank was born in Montreal to Canadian diplomatic workers, and spent many years growing up in Beijing in the 1990s, before returning in 2006 and forming the band Hot & Cold with his brother.
According to early Chinese classics Zuo Zhuan (late 4th century BC), Book of Rites and Classic of Mountains and Seas, Houtu is the son of Gonggong, being able to control the flood by installing mountains of Earth.