Telesto
Moon· orbits Saturn
Telesto is a moon orbiting Saturn.
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Key facts
Radius
12.6 km
1% of our Moon's radius
Orbit around Saturn
-1387.0 hours
-57.79 Earth days
Science
Physical
- Radius
- 12.6 km · 1% of our Moon's radius
- JPL Horizons OBJ_DATA (reported mean radius)
Orbit around Saturn
- Distance from Saturn
- 295,000 km
- From JPL orbital elements
- Orbital period
- -57.8 days
- From JPL orbital elements
- Eccentricity
- 0.001
- From JPL orbital elements
- Inclination to Saturn's Laplace plane
- 1.20 °
- 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
- B.A. Smith, H. Reitsema, S.M. Larson, J. Fountain
Telesto was discovered in 1980 by B.A. Smith and colleagues. 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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