Kerkhov was a class J gas giant planet orbiting the star 40 Eridani C, This planet was located inside Vulcan space in the Vulcan sector of the Beta Quadrant and was approximately 16 light years from Sol. Its coordinates were 2701.6513. It was orbited by a single moon, which was the homeworld of the long-vanished Kerkhovian civilization.
Planetary data for Kerkhov
The planet had a rotation period of 10.8 hours and a revolution period of 4,198.5 solar days. It had an estimated mass of 1.98921 x 1027 kilograms and an estimated age of 4.7 billion solar years. Its atmosphere was composed of 82% molecular hydrogen, 16% helium, 0.16% water, and 0.07% methane, with trace amounts of argon, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, carbon monoxide, neon, xenon, and krypton. The mean surface temperature was -146.1 degrees Celsius.
In 2259, the USS Enterprise conducted a survey of the Kerkhovian moon and discovered that the Kerkhovians still existed, having migrated into interdimensional space. (SNW: "Charades")
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