Farbauti
Moon· orbits Saturn
Farbauti — moon of Saturn.
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Key facts
Orbit around Saturn
1,058 Earth days
2.90 Earth years
Science
Orbit around Saturn
- Distance from Saturn
- 0.181 AU
- Orbital period
- 2.90 years
- Eccentricity
- 0.2258
- Inclination
- 134.54 °
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 0.0112 S⊕ · 1% of the sunlight Earth receives
Discovery & history
- By
- S. Sheppard, D.C. Jewitt, J. Kleyna
Farbauti was discovered in 2004 by S. Sheppard and colleagues. Saturn's moons are named after giants and deities of world mythology — its distant irregular moons after Norse, Inuit and Gallic figures. Beyond its discovery and naming, little more about it has been individually recorded.
Images
No official imagery available — this object has never been visited and no officially-licensed depiction exists.