Methone
Moon· orbits Saturn
Methone is a moon orbiting Saturn.
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Key facts
Radius
1.45 km
Orbit around Saturn
12.83 Earth days
Science
Physical
- Radius
- 1.45 km
- Resolved shape from Cassini imaging — resolved imaging
Orbit around Saturn
- Distance from Saturn
- 194,700 km
- From JPL orbital elements
- Orbital period
- 12.8 days
- From JPL orbital elements
- Eccentricity
- 0.002
- From JPL orbital elements
- Inclination to Saturn's Laplace plane
- 0.00 °
- From JPL orbital elements · The Laplace plane is the one a moon's orbit precesses about: close in it is the planet's equatorial plane, the plane of the rings, and further out it tilts toward the planet's own orbit.
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 0.0112 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
- Cassini Imaging Science Team
Methone was discovered in 2004 by Cassini Imaging Science Team. Saturn's moons are named after the Titans, giants and monsters of Greek and Roman myth. Beyond its discovery and naming, little more about it has been individually recorded.
Images
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