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Vinony's link graph records 121 inbound references to S/2004 S 12, and connects out to Mimas, moon of Saturn and orbital inclination.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 2005, Discoveries by Scott S. Sheppard and Irregular satellites.
Vinony links it to 40 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Discovered by
- Scott S. Sheppard et al.
- Discovery site
- Mauna Kea Obs.
- Discovery date
- 12 December 2004
- Observation arc
- 15.61 yr (5,703 days)
- Semi major axis
- 0.1327201 AU (19,855,000 km)
- Orbital period sidereal
- –2.86 yr (–1044.50 d)
- Mean anomaly
- 326.59167 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 20 40.789 / day
- Inclination
- 163.85743° (to ecliptic )
- Longitude of ascending node
- 330.73760°
- Argument of perihelion
- 111.13920°
- Satellite of
- Saturn
- Group
- Norse group
- Mean diameter
- ≈ 5 km
- Albedo
- 0.04 (assumed)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- moon of Saturn
- Parent body
- Saturn
- Diameter
- 5
- Orbital period
- -1048
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- time of discovery or invention
- 2004-12-12
- provisional designation
- S/2004 S 12
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 19905867
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.401
- orbital inclination
- 164
- apparent magnitude
- 24.8
- discoverer or inventor
- Brian G. Marsden
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Encyclopedic overview
S/2004 S 12 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 9 March 2005.
S/2004 S 12 is about 5 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 19,855,000 kilometres in about 1,044 days, at an inclination of 163.9° to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.371.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “S/2004 S 12” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.