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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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