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Kari (moon)

Moon of Saturn

Summary

Moon of Saturn

Field	Value
name	Kari
image	Kari-cassini.png
caption	Kari imaged by the Cassini spacecraft in May 2017
pronounced
named_after	Kári
mpc_name	Saturn XLV
alt_names	S/2006 S 2
discovered	2006
discoverer	Scott S. Sheppard
David C. Jewitt
Jan T. Kleyna
Brian G. Marsden
orbit_ref
semimajor
inclination	156.3°
eccentricity	0.478
period	−1233.6 days
satellite_of	Saturn
group	Norse group
physical_ref
mean_diameter
rotation	h
albedo	0.06 (assumed)
spectral_type	g – r = 0.31 ± 0.07, r – i = 0.53 ± 0.09
magnitude	23.9
abs_magnitude	14.8

David C. Jewitt Jan T. Kleyna Brian G. Marsden

Kari or Saturn XLV 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.

Kari is about 6 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 22,305,100 km in 1243.71 days, at an inclination of 148.4° to the ecliptic (151.5° to Saturn's equator), in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.3405. The rotation period has been determined to be hours. The light curve is similar to Hyrrokkin's, having two deep and one shallow minima, and the moon is probably triangular in shape.

It was named in April 2007 after Kári, son of Fornjót, the personification of wind in Norse mythology.

References

[https://sites.google.com/carnegiescience.edu/sheppard/moons/saturnmoons S.S. Sheppard (2019), Moons of Saturn, ''Carnegie Science'', on line]
(2022-05-17). "Colors of Irregular Satellites of Saturn with the Dark Energy Camera". The Astronomical Journal.
(2019). "Cassini Observations of Saturn's Irregular Moons". [[Lunar and Planetary Institute]].
(2018). "Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn". [[The University of Arizona Press]].

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