Key facts
- Discovered by
- Scott S. Sheppard et al.
- Discovery site
- Mauna Kea Obs.
- Discovery date
- 16 January 2007
- Observation arc
- 14.48 yr (5,287 days)
- Semi major axis
- 0.1298753 AU (19,429,000 km)
- Orbital period sidereal
- –2.77 yr (–1011.10 d)
- Mean anomaly
- 270.66716 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 21 21.778 / day
- Inclination
- 176.62877° (to ecliptic )
- Longitude of ascending node
- 127.32559°
- Argument of perihelion
- 18.70983°
- Satellite of
- Saturn
- Group
- Norse group
- Mean diameter
- ≈ 5 km
- Albedo
- 0.04 (assumed)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- moon of Saturn
- Parent body
- Saturn
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- time of discovery or invention
- 2007-01-18
- provisional designation
- S/2007 S 3
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 20518500
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Encyclopedic overview
S/2007 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 1 May 2007 from observations taken between 18 January and 19 April 2007.
S/2007 S 3 is about 5 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 19,429,000 kilometres in about 1,011 days, at an inclination of 176.6° to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.143.
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