Moon
A dark, heavily cratered moon that circles Saturn backwards, and is thought to be a captured body from the outer solar system.
| Type | Moon |
|---|---|
| Orbits | Saturn |
| Distance from parent body | 12,947,780 km |
| Diameter | 213 km |
| Mass | 8.29 × 10^18 kg |
| Surface gravity | 0.049 m/s² |
| Temperature | -200°C |
| Orbital period | 550 days |
| Apparent magnitude | 16.4 |
| Redshift | 0 |
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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