Mundilfari (satellite)


Mundilfari, also called Saturn XXV, is a small natural satellite of Saturn. Bett J. Gladman discovered it in the year 2000. Its diameter is 5.6 kilometers and it orbits around Saturn at a distance of 18.360.000 km. Its orbiting time is 928,806 days and the eccentricity of its orbit is 0.198. Orbit retrograde with an inclination of 170 ° with respect to the ecliptic and of 157 ° with respect to the equator of Saturn.

Mundilfari is formed by the union after several collisions of rubble from Phoebe.

Its name comes from that of a giant of Norse mythology.

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