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S/2004 S 12

S/2004 S 12 is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Jan Kleyna, and Brian G. Marsden on 4 May 2005 from observations taken between 12 December 2004 and 9 March 2005. S/2004 S 12 is about 5 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 19,855,000 kilometres in about 1,044 days, at an inclination of 163.9° to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.371. This moon was considered lost until its recovery was announced on 12 October 2022. (In 2021, it had also been found in Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope observations from 2019.)

References

Institute for Astronomy Saturn Satellite Data Jewitt's New Satellites of Saturn page MPEC 2005-J13: Twelve New Satellites of Saturn, 3 May 2005 (discovery and ephemeris)

Tags

  • Astronomical objects discovered in 2005
  • Discoveries by Scott S. Sheppard
  • Irregular satellites
  • Moons of Saturn
  • Moons with a retrograde orbit
  • Norse group
  • Recovered astronomical objects