Saturn's Natural Satellites

For many years, Saturn was believed to have 18 natural satellites. Since the year 2000, however, many more satellites have been observed and confirmed. As of January 2011, Saturn has 53 named moons. Nine additional moons have been detected and are awaiting official confirmation and naming. That would bring the total to 62!

Name Diameter Distance from Saturn
Pan 20 km 133,600 km
Daphnis 7 km 136,500 km
Atlas 32 km 137,700 km
Prometheus 100 km 139,400 km
Pandora 84 km 141,700 km
Epimetheus 119 km 151,400 km
Janus 178 km 151,500 km
Aegaeon 0.5 km 167,500 km
Mimas 397 km 185,600 km
Methone 3 km 194,000 km
Pallene 4 km 211,000 km
Enceladus 499 km 238,100 km
Telesto 24 km 294,700 km
Tethys 1,060 km 294,700 km
Calypso 19 km 294,700 km
Dione 1,118 km 377,400 km
Helene 32 km 377,400 km
Polydeuces 4 km 377,400 km
Rhea 1,528 km 527,100 km
Titan 5,150 km 1,221,900 km
Hyperion 266 km 1,464,100 km
Iapetus 1,436 km 3,560,800 km
Kiviuq 16 km 11,110,000 km
Ijiraq 12 km 11,125,000 km
Phoebe 240 km 12,944,300 km
Paaliaq 22 km 15,200,000 km
Skathi 68 km 15,539,000 km
Albiorix 32 km 16,182,000 km
Bebhionn 6 km 17,119,000 km
Erriapo 10 km 17,342,000 km
Siarnaq 40 km 17,531,000 km
Skoll 6 km 17,665,000 km
Tarvos 15 km 17,982,000 km
Tarqeq 7 km 18,009,000 km
Greip 6 km 18,206,000 km
Hyrrokkin 8 km 18,437,000 km
Mundilfari 7 km 18,418,000 km
Jarmsaxa 6 km 18,811,000 km
Narvi 7 km 19,007,000 km
Bergelmir 6 km 19,338,000 km
Suttungr 7 km 19,459,000 km
Hati 6 km 19,856,000 km
Bestla 7 km 20,129,000 km
Farbauti 5 km 20,390,000 km
Thrymr 7 km 19,941,000 km
Aegir 6 km 20,735,000 km
Kari 7 km 22,118,000 km
Fenrir 4 km 22,453,000 km
Surtur 6 km 22,707,000 km
Ymir 18 km 23,041,000 km
Loge 6 km 23,065,000 km
Fornjot 6 km 25,108,000 km

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