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    Fornjot /ˈfɔːrnjoʊt/ or Saturn XLII is the outermost named moon of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Jan Kleyna...
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    Angrboda, Alvaldi, Beli, Bergelmir, Bestla, Eggther, Farbauti, Fenrir, Fornjot, Geirrod, Gerd, Greip, Gridr, Gunnlod, Hati, Hyrrokkin, Jarnsaxa, Kari...
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  • or moons. At least 19 of them are large enough to be gravitationally rounded; of these, all are covered by a crust of ice except for Earth's Moon and...
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    observed from a distance: Albiorix, Bebhionn, Bergelmir, Bestla, Erriapus, Fornjot, Greip, Hati, Hyrrokkin, Ijiraq, Kari, Kiviuq, Loge, Mundilfari, Narvi...
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  • Flateyjarbók, there is a mention of Logi's family: There was a man called Fornjót. He had three sons; one was Hlér, another Logi, the third Kári; he ruled...
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    Pan is the innermost named moon of Saturn. It is approximately 35 kilometres across and 23 km wide and orbits within the Encke Gap in Saturn's A Ring....
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    Hyperion /haɪˈpɪəriən/, also known as Saturn VII, is the eighth-largest moon of Saturn. It is distinguished by its highly irregular shape, chaotic rotation...
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    Telesto /təˈlɛstoʊ/ is a moon of Saturn. It was discovered by Smith, Reitsema, Larson and Fountain in 1980 from ground-based observations, and was provisionally...
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  • personification of tranquil seas, the one who soothes storms away. He is a son of Fornjót, and brother of Logi (fire, flame) and Kári (wind). The exoplanet Epsilon...
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  • permanent schemes), and the discoverer(s) listed. Historically the naming of moons did not always match the times of their discovery. Traditionally, the discoverer...
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  • with the given name, nickname or surname Kari Suomalainen Kári, son of Fornjót, the personification of wind in Norse mythology KARI (AM), an AM radio...
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    moons". Icarus. 199 (2): 378–386. Bibcode:2009Icar..199..378H. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2008.11.001. ISSN 0019-1035. "PIA06105: Cassini Uncovers New Moon"...
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    Saturn system in 2004, and is thus unusually well-studied for an irregular moon of its size. Cassini's trajectory to Saturn and time of arrival were specifically...
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    minima at others. Having a similar gray color and orbit as Thrymr, the two moons may be members of the same dynamical family. Its name was announced in its...
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    Helene /ˈhɛləniː/ is a moon of Saturn. It was discovered by Pierre Laques and Jean Lecacheux in 1980 from ground-based observations at Pic du Midi Observatory...
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    Its rotation period is 38.79±0.25 hours, the slowest among the retrograde moons measured by Cassini–Huygens and the second-slowest after Tarqeq. Having...
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    of the Alkyonides; the name means flowery. It is the sixtieth confirmed moon of Saturn. The designation S/2007 S 4 was also accidentally and incorrectly...
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    one shallow minima, and the moon is probably triangular in shape. It was named in April 2007 after Kári, son of Fornjót, the personification of wind...
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    Dione (/daɪˈoʊni/), also designated Saturn IV, is the fourth-largest moon of Saturn. With a mean diameter of 1,123 km and a density of about 1.48 g/cm3...
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    Sheppard (2019), Moons of Saturn, Carnegie Science, on line Denk, T.; Mottola, S. (2019). Cassini Observations of Saturn's Irregular Moons (PDF). 50th Lunar...
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    Mimas (redirect from Mimas (moon))
    is derived from the discoverer of Mimas, William Herschel, in 1789. The moon's presence has created one of the largest 'gaps' in Saturn's ring, named the...
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    Calypso is a moon of Saturn. It was discovered in 1980, from ground-based observations, by Dan Pascu, P. Kenneth Seidelmann, William A. Baum, and Douglas...
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    Saturn's equator, with an eccentricity of 0.0002. Aegaeon is the smallest known moon of Saturn outside of the rings and has an extremely elongated shape, measuring...
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    /pəˈliːniː/ is a very small natural satellite of Saturn. It is one of three small moons known as the Alkyonides that lie between the orbits of the larger Mimas...
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    2005 (discovery and ephemeris) IAUC 8826 – Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn, Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, April 5, 2007 (naming the moon)...
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    these satellites could have a common origin in the break-up of a larger moon. Measurements from NEOWISE constrain the albedo of Albiorix at 0.062±0.028...
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  • direction opposite to the planet's spin, suggesting that this irregular moon was captured by Saturn. The oblique stem of the name is Fenri, as in Fenrisulfr...
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    Denk, T.; Mottola, S. (2019). Cassini Observations of Saturn's Irregular Moons (PDF). 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Lunar and Planetary...
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    fastest known rotation of all of Saturn's moons, and in fact the fastest known among all moons (including asteroid moons) for which a rotation period has been...
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  • eccentricity of 0.251. Discovery Circumstances from JPL S.S. Sheppard (2019), Moons of Saturn, Carnegie Science, on line "MPEC 2019-T128 : S/2004 S 22". minorplanetcenter...
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