S/2007 S 6
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S/2007 S 6 — moon of Saturn.
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Key facts
Radius
1.5 km
Orbit around Saturn
942 Earth days
2.58 Earth years
Science
Physical
- Radius (estimated)
- 1.5 km
- Sized from its brightness assuming a dark (~0.04) surface — never resolved, so the true diameter (~3 km) could be off by a factor of two.
Orbit around Saturn
- Distance from Saturn
- 0.124 AU
- From JPL orbital elements
- Orbital period
- 2.58 years
- From JPL orbital elements
- Eccentricity
- 0.1777
- From JPL orbital elements
- Inclination to the J2000 equator
- 169.23 °
- From JPL orbital elements
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 0.0115 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.S. Sheppard, D.C. Jewitt, J. Kleyna, E.J. Ashton, B.J. Gladman, J.-M. Petit, M. Alexandersen
S/2007 S 6 is the provisional designation of a small moon of Saturn detected in 2007 by S.S. Sheppard and colleagues. It has not yet been given a permanent name, and little is known about it beyond its discovery and orbit.
Images
No resolved image of this moon has been released: telescopes and passing spacecraft have recorded it only as a faint point of light.