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Telesto
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| False color image of Telesto, by Cassini on Dec. 25, 2005. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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Telesto and Calypso are known as the Tethys trojans due to the fact that they share the same orbit as Tethys; Telesto moves about 60° ahead of the large moon and Calypso about 60° behind. Like the other inner moons, including Calypso, Epimetheus, Janus, Pandora, Prometheus, Atlas, and Pan, Telesto is probably a "rubble-pile" object rather than a solid icy moon.
| Discovery | 1980, by Brad Smith et al |
| Semimajor axis | 294,619 km (183,107 miles) |
| Diameter | 29 × 22 × 20 km (18 × 14 × 12 miles) |
| Orbital period | 1.888 days (1 day 21 hr 19 min.) |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.000 |
| Orbital inclination | 1.19° |
| Visual albedo | 0.5? |
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