Moon
Nicknamed the wavemaker moon because its gravity raises waves in the edges of the Keeler Gap it orbits within.
| Type | Moon |
|---|---|
| Orbits | Saturn |
| Distance from parent body | 136,505 km |
| Diameter | 8 km |
| Mass | 6.80 × 10^13 kg |
| Surface gravity | 2.98e-4 m/s² |
| Temperature | -195°C |
| Orbital period | 1 days |
| Apparent magnitude | 21 |
| Redshift | 0 |
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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