What is Kari (moon)?
'''Kari''' or '''Saturn XLV''' (provisional designation '''S/2006 S 2''') is a [[Satellite (natural)|moon]] of [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]]. Its discovery was announced by [[Scott S. Sheppard]], [[David C. Jewitt]], [[Jan Kleyna]], and [[Brian G. Marsden]] on June 26, 2006, from observations taken between January and April 2006. Kari is about 7 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 22,305,100&nbsp;km in 1243.71 days, at an [[inclination]] of 148.4° to the [[ecliptic]] (151.5° to Saturn's equator), with an [[Orbital eccentricity|eccentricity]] of 0.3405. It was named in April 2007 after [[Kári]], son of [[Fornjót]], the personification of wind in [[Norse mythology]]. == References == * [http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~sheppard/satellites/satsatdata.html Institute for Astronomy Saturn Satellite Data] * [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/08700/08727.html IAUC 8727: ''Satellites of Saturn''] 2006 June 30 (discovery) * [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K06/K06M45.html MPEC 2006-M45: ''Eight New Satellites of Saturn''] 2006 June 26 (discovery and ephemeris) * [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/08800/08826.html IAUC 8826: ''Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn''] (subscription-only) 2007 April 5 (Naming the moon) <br />{{Moons of Saturn}} {{sci-stub}} [[Category:Saturn's moons]]