Polydeuces
A regular moon of Saturn about 2.6 km across, one orbit every 2.74 days.
Where it is right now
Polydeuces 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
- 1.3 kmSource: IAU/NASA planetary satellite fact sheets
- Orbits
- Saturn, 377,600 km out on averageSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Satellite Mean Elements
- Orbital period
- 2.74 daysSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Satellite Mean Elements
- Orbit shape
- eccentricity 0.0190, inclined 0.20 degrees to Saturn's Laplace planeSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Satellite Mean Elements
- Discovered
- 2004 by Cassini Imaging Science TeamSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Satellite Discovery Circumstances
Physical size
- Mean radius
- 1.3 km
- Diameter
- 2.6 km across
Orbit
Elements are relative to Saturn.
- Average distance from Saturn
- 377,600 km
- Closest and furthest
- 370,426 km to 384,774 km
- Eccentricity
- 0.0190, almost circular
- Inclination to Saturn's reference plane
- 27.96 degrees
- Orbital period
- 2.7 days
- Longitude of ascending node
- 169.82 degrees
- Argument of periapsis
- 221.39 degrees
- Mean anomaly at J2000.0
- 359.00 degrees
Family
Orbits Saturn.
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