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Mundilfari: Facts & Figures
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Discovered By
Brett J. Gladman, John J. Kavelaars, Jean-Marc Petit, Hans Scholl, Matthew J. Holman, Brian G. Marsden, Phillip D. Nicholson, and Joseph A. Burns
Date of Discovery
2000
Orbit Size Around Saturn (semi-major axis)
Metric: 18,667,900 km
English: 11,599,695 miles
Periapsis (closest)
Metric: 14,839,114 km
Apoapsis (farthest)
Metric: 22,496,686 km
Sidereal Orbit Period (Length of Year)
2.608706366 Earth years
952.83 Earth days
By Comparison: Retrograde orbit
Orbit Circumference
Metric: 116,050,449.86 km
Average Orbit Velocity
Metric: 5,074.8 km/h
Orbit Eccentricity
0.2051
Orbit Inclination
169.206
By Comparison: Retrograde orbit
Mean Radius
Metric: 3.5 (assuming an albedo of 0.06) km
English: 2.2 miles
Equatorial Circumference
Metric: 22.0 km
Volume
Metric: 180 km3
Mass
Metric: 209,813,580,633,607 kg
Scientific Notation: 2.0981 x 1014 kg
Density
Metric: 2.3 g/cm3
Surface Area
Metric: 153.94 km2
Surface Gravity
Metric: 0.001 m/s2
Escape Velocity
Metric: 10 km/h

Additional Information:

-USGS Astrogeology: Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/append7.html

-JPL Solar System Dynamics: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/

-Solar System Moons: Discovery and Mythology by Jürgen Blunck; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010

-Encyclopedia of the Solar System, second edition; edited by Lucy-Ann McFadden, Paul R. Weissman, and Torrence V. Johnson; Academic Press 2007

-Ellis Miner

-Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2010: http://www.britannica.com

-"A deeper look at the colors of the Saturnian irregular satellites" by Tommy Grav and James Bauer http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611590

-Edda by Snorri Sturluson, translated by Anthony Faulkes. Everyman Paperbacks, 1995
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