S2023_S_56

MOONMoon of Saturn

ILLUSTRATION · NO MEASURED PROPERTIES · SHADING, NOT THE PHASE

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OVERVIEW

] MOON

S2023_S_56 is a moon of Saturn. It orbits Saturn at a mean distance of 1.13×10⁷ . It was discovered in 2023.

WHAT IT IS
Moon of Saturn
HOW FAR
1.13×10⁷

Its average distance from Saturn, not from Earth.

ONE ORBIT TAKES
448

One trip round Saturn.

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CATALOG DATA

] 19 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
447.7458
Eccentricity
Inclination
45.4
Longitude of ascending node
271
Argument of periapsis
89.8
Mean anomaly
341.9
Element epoch
2451545.0000
Elements referred to
the ecliptic — the plane of the Earth's orbit
Apsidal precession period
1103.1
Nodal precession period
1051.7
Mean anomaly fitted to the ephemeris
165.57
Mean anomaly rate
0.801885
Apsidal precession rate
0.000893506
Nodal precession rate
−0.000937174
Agreement with the ephemeris
11.14

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
65295

WHERE THESE FIGURES CAME FROM

Which catalogue, paper or model each of the fields above was read from, where the source named one.

Ephemeris
SAT459
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 1 DESIGNATIONS
  • Common name S2023_S_56
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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. S2023_S_56 [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/s2023-s-56
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_s2023-s-56,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{S2023\_S\_56}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/s2023-s-56},
  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.

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