Bergelmir
ILLUSTRATION · NO MEASURED PROPERTIES · SHADING, NOT THE PHASE
CATALOG DATA
] 22 FIELDSThe raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.
THE ORBIT
The shape of the path, where the object sits on it, and the instant those figures were true of. An orbit is a fit to observations and drifts away from the real one either side of its epoch.
- Orbits
- Saturn
- Orbital period
- 998.6187
- Eccentricity
- Inclination
- 158.8
- Longitude of ascending node
- 207.9
- Argument of periapsis
- 133.9
- Mean anomaly
- 255.7
- Element epoch
- 2451545.0000
- Elements referred to
- the ecliptic — the plane of the Earth's orbit
- Apsidal precession period
- 246.1
- Nodal precession period
- 430.9
- Mean anomaly fitted to the ephemeris
- 327.72
- Mean anomaly rate
- 0.354562
- Apsidal precession rate
- 0.00400498
- Nodal precession rate
- 0.00228737
- Agreement with the ephemeris
- 4.54
WHEN IT WAS FOUND
Who first saw it, from where, and by what method.
- Discovered by
- S. Sheppard, D.C. Jewitt, J. Kleyna
OTHER NAMES AND NUMBERS
The identifiers other catalogues file this object under, for anyone joining this data to theirs.
- Also known as
- Saturn XXXVIII
- JPL satellite code
- 638
- Wikidata item
- Q18195
- Wikipedia article
- Bergelmir (moon)
WHERE THESE FIGURES CAME FROM
Which catalogue, paper or model each of the fields above was read from, where the source named one.
- Ephemeris
- SAT456
ALSO KNOWN AS
] 1 DESIGNATIONS- Common name Bergelmir
CITE THIS PAGE
] DR1This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.
SpaceCatalog. Bergelmir [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/bergelmir
@misc{spacecatalog_bergelmir,
author = {{SpaceCatalog}},
title = {{Bergelmir}},
howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
year = {2026},
url = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/bergelmir},
note = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from JPL Planetary Satellite Data.}
}The values above were taken from JPL Planetary Satellite Data — No licence stated; citation requested. Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.
That catalogue asks for this acknowledgement: Solar System Dynamics. (Downloaded 2026, September 13). Planetary Satellite Mean Elements; Planetary Satellite Physical Parameters; Planetary Satellite Discovery Circumstances. https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov