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    Daphnis (S/2005 S1)

    Daphnis
    Daphnis is seen as a tiny disk in the Keeler Gap of Saturn's rings in this mage taken by the Cassini spacecraft on May 1, 2005, from a distance of 525,000 km (326,000 miles). Image: NASA/JPL
    A small inner moon of Saturn, which orbits within the Keeler Gap of the A-ring of Saturn's rings. The Keeler Gap edges are similar to the scalloped edges of the 322-km-wide (200-mile) Encke Gap, where Pan resides. Daphnis is also known as Saturn XXXV and was given the provisional name S/2005 S1 following its discovery.


    discovery 2005, Cassini imaging team
    semimajor axis 136,505 km (84,838 miles)
    diameter 6–8 km
    orbital period 0.594 days (14 hr 15 min.)
    orbital eccentricity ~0.0
    orbital inclination ~0.0°
    visual albedo 0.5


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