S/2020 S 1
Moon· orbits Saturn
S/2020 S 1 — moon of Saturn.
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Key facts
Radius
2 km
Orbit around Saturn
453 Earth days
1.24 Earth years
Science
Physical
- Radius (estimated)
- 2 km
- Sized from its brightness assuming a dark (~0.04) surface — never resolved, so the true diameter (~4 km) could be off by a factor of two.
Orbit around Saturn
- Distance from Saturn
- 11,370,338 km
- From JPL orbital elements
- Orbital period
- 452.7 days
- From JPL orbital elements
- Eccentricity
- 0.4926
- From JPL orbital elements
- Inclination to the J2000 equator
- 28.81 °
- From JPL orbital elements
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
- S.S. Sheppard, D.C. Jewitt, J. Kleyna, E.J. Ashton, B.J. Gladman, J.-M. Petit, M. Alexandersen
S/2020 S 1 is the provisional designation of a small moon of Saturn detected in 2020 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.