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Mass Effect 2 Planetary Database: Entry Details
Pauling
System: Sigurd's Cradle
Cluster: Skepsis
Anomaly/Landable: No
Installation: Base Installation
Orbital Distance: 4.3 AU
Orbital Period: 8.9 Earth Years
Radius: 4,738 km
Day Length: 60.7 Earth Hours
A hydrogen-methane gas giant, Pauling's gravitational field is believed to have cleared most of what would otherwise have been a sizable asteroid belt. The 2163 mission of the space probe "Ultimate" gave the inhabitants of Watson reams of data reinforcing this theory, giving the colonists an accurate count of its moons (66), rings, moonlike ring objects, and more than 200 visible impact craters on its pockmarked surface. "Ultimate" has been since retrieved for re-use on subsequent missions within the solar system.