Phoebe

Moon

A dark, heavily cratered moon that circles Saturn backwards, and is thought to be a captured body from the outer solar system.

Facts

TypeMoon
OrbitsSaturn
Distance from parent body12,947,780 km
Diameter213 km
Mass8.29 × 10^18 kg
Surface gravity0.049 m/s²
Temperature-200°C
Orbital period550 days
Apparent magnitude16.4
Redshift0

Phoebe in context

At 213 km across, Phoebe is 6.1 percent of the diameter of Earth's Moon.

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

It orbits Saturn at 12,947,780 km, further out than the Moon orbits Earth.

A single orbit takes 1.5 years.

An average temperature of 73 K works out at -200 degrees Celsius, colder than the 15 degrees Earth averages.

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