Kiviuq
Moon· orbits Saturn
Kiviuq is a moon orbiting Saturn.
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Key facts
Orbit around Saturn
449 Earth days
1.23 Earth years
Science
Orbit around Saturn
- Distance from Saturn
- 8,482,202 km
- Orbital period
- 448.8 days
- Eccentricity
- 0.1451
- Inclination
- 72.14 °
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 0.0113 S⊕ · 1% of the sunlight Earth receives
Discovery & history
- By
- B. Gladman, J. Kavelaars, J.-M. Petit, H. Scholl, M. Holman, B.G. Marsden, P. Nicholson, J.A. Burns
Kiviuq was discovered in 2000 by B. Gladman 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.