Key facts
- Discovered by
- Scott S. Sheppard et al.
- Discovery site
- Mauna Kea Obs.
- Discovery date
- 12 December 2004
- Designation
- Saturn LXVII (67)
- Alternative names
- S/2004 S 7
- Observation arc
- 15.61 yr (5,703 days)
- Semi major axis
- 0.1441103 AU (21,559,000 km)
- Orbital period sidereal
- –3.24 yr (–1181.80 d)
- Mean anomaly
- 94.00208 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 18 16.63 / day
- Inclination
- 165.04992° (to ecliptic )
- Longitude of ascending node
- 14.74072°
- Argument of perihelion
- 127.76280°
- Satellite of
- Saturn
- Group
- Norse group
- Mean diameter
- ≈ 6 km
- Albedo
- 0.04 (assumed)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- moon of Saturn
- Parent body
- Saturn
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- provisional designation
- S/2004 S 7
- time of discovery or invention
- 2004-12-12
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 20576693
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Encyclopedic overview
Saturn LXVII, provisionally designated S/2004 S 7, is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Jan Kleyna, and Brian G. Marsden on 4 May 2005 from observations taken between 12 December 2004 and 8 March 2005.
Saturn LXVII is about 6 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 21,559,000 kilometres in about 1,182 days, at an inclination of 165.0° to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.574. Denk et al. (2018) tentatively assigned this moon to the Mundilfari dynamical family, but it may instead be more closely related to Thrymr.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “S/2004 S 7” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.