Hati

Moon· orbits Saturn

Hati is a moon orbiting Saturn.

Open in 3D viewSee Hati in the live, interactive 3D map

Key facts

Radius
2.5 km
Orbit around Saturn
1,027 Earth days
2.81 Earth years

Science

Physical

Radius (estimated)
2.5 km
Sized from its brightness assuming a dark (~0.04) surface — never resolved, so the true diameter (~5 km) could be off by a factor of two.

Orbit around Saturn

Distance from Saturn
0.131 AU
From JPL orbital elements
Orbital period
2.81 years
From JPL orbital elements
Eccentricity
0.4386
From JPL orbital elements
Inclination to the J2000 equator
169.23 °
From JPL orbital elements

Radiation & temperature

Insolation
0.011 S⊕ · 1% of the sunlight Earth receives
Computed from the distance to the Sun (inverse-square; Earth's sunlight = 1), before any atmosphere.

Discovery & history

By
S. Sheppard, D.C. Jewitt, J. Kleyna

Hati 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 resolved image of this moon has been released: telescopes and passing spacecraft have recorded it only as a faint point of light.