Gunnlod

MOONMoon of Saturn

ILLUSTRATION · NO MEASURED PROPERTIES · SHADING, NOT THE PHASE

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OVERVIEW

] MOON

Gunnlod is a moon of Saturn. It orbits Saturn at a mean distance of 2.11×10⁷ . It was discovered in 2004.

WHAT IT IS
Moon of Saturn
HOW FAR
2.11×10⁷

Its average distance from Saturn, not from Earth.

ONE ORBIT TAKES
3.14

One trip round Saturn.

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CATALOG DATA

] 21 FIELDS

The 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
3.142
Eccentricity
Inclination
160.4
Longitude of ascending node
293.3
Argument of periapsis
24.7
Mean anomaly
311.4
Element epoch
2451545.0000
Elements referred to
the ecliptic — the plane of the Earth's orbit
Apsidal precession period
210
Nodal precession period
356.2
Mean anomaly fitted to the ephemeris
190.75
Mean anomaly rate
0.307292
Apsidal precession rate
0.00469346
Nodal precession rate
0.00276706
Agreement with the ephemeris
8.16

WHEN IT WAS FOUND

Who first saw it, from where, and by what method.

Discovered by
S.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.

JPL satellite code
662
Wikidata item
Q70141886
Wikipedia article
Gunnlod (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
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 1 DESIGNATIONS
  • Common name Gunnlod
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CITE THIS PAGE

] DR1

This 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.

PLAIN TEXT
SpaceCatalog. Gunnlod [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/gunnlod
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_gunnlod,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{Gunnlod}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/gunnlod},
  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

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