Discovery of the Closest Saturnian Irregular Moon, S/2019 S 1, and Implications for the Direct/Retrograde Satellite Ratio
International audience We present a tracked orbit for a recently discovered 25th magnitude irregular moon of Saturn, using Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope imaging. Our 2 yr of observational arc on the moon leads to an orbit with a semimajor axis of 11.2 million kilometers and an inclination of 44 deg...
Published in: | The Planetary Science Journal |
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Main Authors: | , , , , |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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2022
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Online Access: | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03752464 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03752464/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03752464/file/Ashton-etal_2022_PSJ_3_107.pdf https://doi.org/10.3847/psj/ac64a2 |