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	Methone	Saturn
Discovered By	S. Charnoz, C. Porco, Cassini Imaging Team	Known by the Ancients
Date of Discovery	1 June 2004	Unknown
Average Orbit Distance	194,440 km	1,426,666,422 km
Perihelion/Perigee (closest)	194,421 km	1,349,823,615 km
Aphelion/Apogee (farthest)	194,459 km	1,503,509,229 km
Equatorial Radius	1.6 km	58,232 km
Equatorial Circumference	10.1 km	365,882.4 km
Volume	17 km3	827,129,915,150,897 km3
Mass	8,992,010,598,583 kg	568,319,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
Density	0.5 g/cm3	0.687 g/cm3
Surface Area	32.17 km2	42,612,133,285 km2
Equatorial Surface Gravity	0.00023 m/s2	10.4* m/s2
Escape Velocity	3 km/h	129,924 km/h
Mean Orbit Velocity	50,400.3 km/h	34,701 km/h
Orbit Eccentricity	0.0001	0.05386179
Orbit Inclination to Ecliptic	0.007	2.49 degrees
Orbit Circumference	1,221,702.55 km	8,957,504,604 km