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Vinony's link graph records 121 inbound references to S/2007 S 3, and connects out to Mimas, moon of Saturn and orbital inclination.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 2007, Discoveries by Scott S. Sheppard and Irregular satellites.
Vinony links it to 38 Wikipedia language editions.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “S/2007 S 3” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.