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S/2006 S 1

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moon of Saturn

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Within Vinony's link graph, S/2006 S 1 is referenced by 121 other articles, and connects out to Mimas, moon of Saturn and orbital inclination.

Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 2006, Discoveries by Scott S. Sheppard and Irregular satellites.

Its subject is documented across 38 Wikipedia language editions.

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.

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