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Vinony's link graph records 121 inbound references to S/2004 S 13, and connects out to Mimas, moon of Saturn and orbital inclination.
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 2005, Discoveries by Scott S. Sheppard and Irregular satellites.
Vinony links it to 41 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Discovered by
- Scott S. Sheppard et al.
- Discovery site
- Mauna Kea Obs.
- Discovery date
- 12 December 2004
- Observation arc
- 15.60 yr (5,699 days)
- Semi major axis
- 0.1235696 AU (18,486,000 km)
- Orbital period sidereal
- –2.57 yr (–938.36 d)
- Mean anomaly
- 318.38441 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 23 1.133 / day
- Inclination
- 166.99515° (to ecliptic )
- Longitude of ascending node
- 235.01103°
- Argument of perihelion
- 18.66111°
- Satellite of
- Saturn
- Group
- Norse group
- Mean diameter
- ≈ 6 km
- Albedo
- 0.04 (assumed)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- moon of Saturn
- Parent body
- Saturn
- Diameter
- 6
- Orbital period
- -906
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- apparent magnitude
- 24.5
- discoverer or inventor
- David Clifford Jewitt
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.273
- orbital inclination
- 167.4
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 18056254
- time of discovery or invention
- 2004-12-12
- provisional designation
- S/2004 S 13
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Encyclopedic overview
S/2004 S 13 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 13 is about 6 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 18,486,000 kilometres in about 938 days, at an inclination of 167.0° to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.271.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “S/2004 S 13” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.