Pan

Moon of SaturnNamed minor body or small moon

Orbits inside the Encke Gap and has swept it clear, wearing a ridge of ring debris at its equator.

Where it is right now

Pan is in Pisces, 8.97 AU away.

Computed for 2 August 2026, 17:00 UTC, and recomputed at least hourly. This page is cached, so treat the line above as accurate to the hour rather than to the second. The map shows the live position.

Position from a Kepler propagation of the published elements below, accurate to about an arcminute.

Facts

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Mean radius: 14 kmSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Satellite Physical Parameters
Orbits: Saturn, 133,600 km out on averageSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Satellite Mean Elements
Orbital period: 0.58 daysSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Satellite Mean Elements
Orbit shape: eccentricity 0.0000, inclined 0.00 degrees to Saturn's Laplace planeSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Satellite Mean Elements
Discovered: 1990 by M.R. ShowalterSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Satellite Discovery Circumstances

Physical size

Mean radius: 14.0 km
Diameter: 28 km across

Orbit

Elements are relative to Saturn.

Average distance from Saturn: 133,600 km
Eccentricity: 0.0000, almost perfectly circular
Inclination to Saturn's reference plane: 28.08 degrees
Orbital period: 13.8 hours
Longitude of ascending node: 169.48 degrees
Argument of periapsis: 320.09 degrees
Mean anomaly at J2000.0: 146.60 degrees

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