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Pallene (moon)

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Pallene (Παλλήνη) is a very small natural satellite of Saturn. [1]

15 relations: Alcyoneus, Alkyonides, Cassini–Huygens, Day, Enceladus, Giant, Julian day, Methone (moon), Mimas (moon), Natural satellite, Osculating orbit, Pallene (mythology), Saturn, Tidal locking, Voyager 2.

Alcyoneus

Alcyoneus (Ἀλκυονεύς, Alkuoneus) was a traditional opponent of the hero Heracles.

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Alkyonides

The Alkyonides were, in Greek mythology, the seven daughters of Alcyoneus.

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Cassini–Huygens

The Cassini–Huygens mission, commonly called Cassini, was a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.

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Day

A day, a unit of time, is approximately the period of time during which the Earth completes one rotation with respect to the Sun (solar day).

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Enceladus

Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn.

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Giant

Giants (from Latin and Ancient Greek: "gigas", cognate giga-) are beings of human appearance, but prodigious size and strength common in the mythology and legends of many different cultures.

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Julian day

Julian day is the continuous count of days since the beginning of the Julian Period and is used primarily by astronomers.

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Methone (moon)

Methone is a very small natural satellite of Saturn orbiting between the orbits of Mimas and Enceladus.

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Mimas (moon)

Mimas, also designated Saturn I, is a moon of Saturn which was discovered in 1789 by William Herschel.

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Natural satellite

A natural satellite or moon is, in the most common usage, an astronomical body that orbits a planet or minor planet (or sometimes another small Solar System body).

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Osculating orbit

In astronomy, and in particular in astrodynamics, the osculating orbit of an object in space at a given moment in time is the gravitational Kepler orbit (i.e. ellipse or other conic) that it would have about its central body if perturbations were not present.

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Pallene (mythology)

In Greek mythology, the name Pallene (Παλλήνη) may refer to.

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Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.

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Tidal locking

Tidal locking (also called gravitational locking or captured rotation) occurs when the long-term interaction between a pair of co-orbiting astronomical bodies drives the rotation rate of at least one of them into the state where there is no more net transfer of angular momentum between this body (e.g. a planet) and its orbit around the second body (e.g. a star); this condition of "no net transfer" must be satisfied over the course of one orbit around the second body.

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Voyager 2

Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, to study the outer planets.

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S/1981 S 14, S/1981 S14, S/2004 S 2, S/2004 S2, Saturn XXXIII.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallene_(moon)

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