Key facts
- Discovered by
- Scott S. Sheppard , David C. Jewitt , Jan T. Kleyna
- Discovery date
- 6 March 2006
- Observation arc
- 2.13 yr (776 d )
- Earliest precovery date
- 5 January 2005
- Semi major axis
- 0.1246859 AU (18,652,750 km)
- Orbital period sidereal
- −2.604 yr (−951.1 d)
- Mean anomaly
- 351.30293 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 22 42.627 / day
- Inclination
- 154.62928° (to the ecliptic )
- Longitude of ascending node
- 351.18965°
- Argument of perihelion
- 176.02188°
- Satellite of
- Saturn
- Group
- Norse group
- Mean diameter
- ≈5 km , ≈3 km
- Albedo
- 0.04 (assumed)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- irregular moon
- Parent body
- Saturn
- Diameter
- 5
- Orbital period
- -951.1
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- time of discovery or invention
- 2006-01-04
- provisional designation
- S/2006 S 1
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 18981135
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.0814088
- orbital inclination
- 154.62928
- albedo
- 0.04
- apparent magnitude
- 24.5
- longitude of ascending node
- 351.18965
- argument of periapsis
- 176.021
- mean anomaly
- 351.30293
- discoverer or inventor
- Brian G. Marsden
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Encyclopedic overview
S/2006 S 1 is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Jan Kleyna, and Brian G. Marsden on June 26, 2006 from observations taken between January 4 and April 30, 2006. S/2006 S 1 is about 6 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 18.65 million km in 951.1 days, at an inclination of 154.6° to the ecliptic (178.9° to Saturn's equator), in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.0814.
The moon was once considered lost in 2006 as it was not seen since its discovery. The moon was later recovered and announced in October 2019.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “S/2006 S 1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.