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Vinony's link graph records 122 inbound references to S/2006 S 3, 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.
Vinony links it to 38 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Discovered by
- Sheppard et al.
- Semi major axis
- 21 408 300 km
- Orbital period sidereal
- −1164.3 days
- Inclination
- 151.7°
- Satellite of
- Saturn
- Group
- Norse group
- Mean diameter
- 4 km
- Albedo
- 0.06 (assumed)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- moon of Saturn
- Parent body
- Saturn
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- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 21132000
- time of discovery or invention
- 2006-01-05
- provisional designation
- S/2006 S 3
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Encyclopedic overview
S/2006 S 3 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 and April 2006.
S/2006 S 3 is about 6 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 21,308,400 km in 1160.7 days, at an inclination of 152.8° to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.4707.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “S/2006 S 3” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.