Information AboutSuttungr (moon) |
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Suttungr is about 5.6 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 19,667 Mm in 1029.703 days, at an Inclination of 174° to the Ecliptic (159° to Saturn's equator), in a Retrograde direction and with an Eccentricity of 0.131. Suttungr may have formed from debris knocked off of Phoebe at some point in the past. Its name comes from Norse Mythology , where Suttung is a Jotun or giant who once owned the Mead of Poetry . The name was announced as Suttung in IAU Circular 8177 . However, the IAU Working Group On Planetary System Nomenclature later decided to add the Nominative Case ending ''-r'' to the base form ''Suttung''. |
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