Daphnis (S/2005 S1)
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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
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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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Saturn, moons
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PLANETS AND MOONS
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