S2023_S_21
ILLUSTRATION · NO MEASURED PROPERTIES · SHADING, NOT THE PHASE
OBSERVING
] FROM WHERE YOU AREWhat it takes to see S2023_S_21 for yourself. Everything in this part of the page is worked out for a real horizon, a real night and the equipment you say you have.
CATALOG DATA
] 19 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
- 883.3083
- Eccentricity
- Inclination
- 157.3
- Longitude of ascending node
- 124.2
- Argument of periapsis
- 341.9
- Mean anomaly
- 38.7
- Element epoch
- 2451545.0000
- Elements referred to
- the ecliptic — the plane of the Earth's orbit
- Apsidal precession period
- 291.9
- Nodal precession period
- 511.1
- Mean anomaly fitted to the ephemeris
- 33.67
- Mean anomaly rate
- 0.40431
- Apsidal precession rate
- 0.00337659
- Nodal precession rate
- 0.00192844
- Agreement with the ephemeris
- 2.11
WHEN IT WAS FOUND
Who first saw it, from where, and by what method.
- Discovered by
- E.J. Ashton, B.J. Gladman, J.-M. Petit, M. Alexandersen, W.C. Fraser, S.M. Lawler, J.J. Kavelaars
OTHER NAMES AND NUMBERS
The identifiers other catalogues file this object under, for anyone joining this data to theirs.
- JPL satellite code
- 65256
WHERE THESE FIGURES CAME FROM
Which catalogue, paper or model each of the fields above was read from, where the source named one.
- Ephemeris
- SAT455
ALSO KNOWN AS
] 1 DESIGNATIONS- Common name S2023_S_21
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. S2023_S_21 [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/s2023-s-21
@misc{spacecatalog_s2023-s-21,
author = {{SpaceCatalog}},
title = {{S2023\_S\_21}},
howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
year = {2026},
url = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/s2023-s-21},
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 — Public domain (NASA/JPL). Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.