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Saturn LX is about 4 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 17 million km (11 million mi) in 837.78 d (2.2937 a), at an average inclination of 38.6° to the ecliptic, with an eccentricity of 0.485.
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on October 7, 2019 from observations taken between December 12, 2004 and January 17, 2007. It was given its permanent designation in August 2021.
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Jacobson, Robert A.; Brozović, Marina; Mastrodemos, Nickolaos; Riedel, Joseph E.; Sheppard, Scott S. (December 2022).
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before it was recategorized to the Gallic group in 2022.
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Listed in approximate increasing distance from Saturn
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Index

S/2004 S 29
Discovered by
Sheppard
Alternative names
Orbital characteristics
Semi-major axis
Eccentricity
Orbital period (sidereal)
Inclination
Satellite of
Saturn
Group
Gallic group
Mean diameter
Apparent magnitude
Absolute magnitude (H)
natural satellite
Saturn
Gallic group
Scott S. Sheppard
David C. Jewitt
Jan Kleyna
Inuit group
from JPL


S.S. Sheppard (2019), Moons of Saturn, Carnegie Science, on line


"Planetary Satellite Mean Elements"

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