Loge (moon) explained

Loge
Named After:Logi
Mpc Name:Saturn XLVI
Alt Names:S/2006 S 5
Discovered:2006
Discoverer:Scott S. Sheppard
David C. Jewitt
Jan T. Kleyna
Brian G. Marsden
Orbit Ref:[1]
Inclination:167.9°
Eccentricity:0.187
Period:−1312.0 days
Satellite Of:Saturn
Group:Norse group
Rotation:? h
Albedo:0.06 (assumed)
Magnitude:24.6
Abs Magnitude:15.3

Loge or Saturn XLVI is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Jan Kleyna, and Brian G. Marsden on 26 June 2006, from observations taken between January and April 2006.

Loge is about 5 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 23,142,000 km in 1314.364 days, at an inclination of 166.5° to the ecliptic (165.3° to Saturn's equator), in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.1390. It has a tentative rotation period of about hours,[2] but this is highly uncertain as the light curve is the shallowest among all the irregular moons studied by Cassini–Huygens (amplitude about 0.07 magnitudes).[3]

It was named in April 2007, after Logi, a fire giant from Norse mythology.

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Notes and References

  1. https://sites.google.com/carnegiescience.edu/sheppard/moons/saturnmoons S.S. Sheppard (2019), Moons of Saturn, Carnegie Science, on line
  2. Cassini Observations of Saturn's Irregular Moons . T. . Denk . S. . Mottola . 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference . . 2132 . 2019.
  3. Book: Denk . Tilmann . Mottola . Stefano . Tosi . Frederico . Bottke . William F. . Hamilton . Douglas P. . . 2018 . 9780816537075 . Schenk, P.M. . Space Science Series . 322 . Tucson, AZ . 409–434 . The Irregular Satellites of Saturn . 2018eims.book..409D . 10.2458/azu_uapress_9780816537075-ch020 . Clark, R.N. . Howett, C.J.A. . Verbiscer, A.J. . Waite, J.H. . https://tilmanndenk.de/wp-content/uploads/DenkEtAl2018_IrregularMoons.pdf.