S/2004 S 17 | |
Discoverer: | Scott S. Sheppard et al. |
Discovery Site: | Mauna Kea Obs. |
Discovered: | 13 December 2004 |
Epoch: | 9 August 2022 (JD 2459800.5) |
Observation Arc: | 15.67 yr (5,725 days) |
Eccentricity: | 0.1647702 |
Period: | –2.86 yr (–1043.92 d) |
Mean Anomaly: | 226.13753° |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Inclination: | 168.11825° |
Asc Node: | 34.46812° |
Arg Peri: | 186.71765° |
Satellite Of: | Saturn |
Group: | Norse group |
Mean Diameter: | ≈ |
Albedo: | 0.04 |
Magnitude: | 25.2 |
Abs Magnitude: | 16.0 |
S/2004 S 17 is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Jan Kleyna, and Brian G. Marsden on 4 May 2005 from observations taken between 13 December 2004 and 5 March 2005.
S/2004 S 17 is about 4 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 19,847,000 kilometres in about 1,044 days, at an inclination of 168.1° to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.165.
This moon was considered lost[1] until its recovery was announced on 12 October 2022.