Daphnis

Moon

Nicknamed the wavemaker moon because its gravity raises waves in the edges of the Keeler Gap it orbits within.

Facts

TypeMoon
OrbitsSaturn
Distance from parent body136,505 km
Diameter8 km
Mass6.80 × 10^13 kg
Surface gravity2.98e-4 m/s²
Temperature-195°C
Orbital period1 days
Apparent magnitude21
Redshift0

Daphnis in context

At 8 km across, Daphnis is 0.2 percent of the diameter of Earth's Moon.

Its mass is less than a thousandth of the mass of Earth.

It orbits Saturn at 136,505 km, closer in than the Moon orbits Earth.

A single orbit takes 14.3 hours.

An average temperature of 78 K works out at -195 degrees Celsius, colder than the 15 degrees Earth averages.

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