Key facts
- Discovered by
- Scott S. Sheppard , David C. Jewitt , Jan T. Kleyna , Brian G. Marsden
- Discovery date
- December 2004
- Designation
- Saturn XL
- Pronunciation
- / f ɑːr ˈ b aʊ t i /
- Named after
- Fárbauti
- Alternative names
- S/2004 S 9
- Semi major axis
- 20 390 000 km
- Orbital period sidereal
- −1086.1 days
- Inclination
- 156.4°
- Satellite of
- Saturn
- Group
- Norse group
- Mean diameter
- 4 km
- Albedo
- 0.06 (assumed)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- moon of Saturn
- Named after
- Fárbauti
- Parent body
- Saturn
- Diameter
- 5
- Orbital period
- -1086.1
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- time of discovery or invention
- 2004-12-12
- provisional designation
- S/2004 S 9
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 20290752
- discoverer or inventor
- Brian G. Marsden
- Commons category
- Farbauti (moon)
- name
- Saturn XL
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.206
- orbital inclination
- 156.4
- apparent magnitude
- 24.7
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Encyclopedic overview
Farbauti /fɑːrˈbaʊti/ or Saturn XL is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Jan Kleyna, and Brian G. Marsden on May 4, 2005, from observations taken between December 12, 2004, and March 9, 2005.
Farbauti is about 4 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 20,291 Mm in 1079.099 days, at an inclination of 158° to the ecliptic (131° to Saturn's equator), in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.209.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Farbauti” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.