What is Fornjot (moon)?
'''Fornjot''' or '''Saturn XLII''' (provisional designation '''S/2004 S 8''') 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 May 4, 2005, from observations taken between December 12, 2004, and March 11, 2005. It is about 6 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 24,505,000&nbsp;km in 1432 [[day]]s at an [[inclination]] of 168° to the [[ecliptic]] (152° to Saturn's equator) with an [[Orbital eccentricity|eccentricity]] of 0.186. It is the farthest moon from Saturn. It was named in April 2007, after [[Fornjót]], a storm giant from [[Norse mythology]], father of [[Ægir]], [[Kári]], and [[Loge]]. == References == * [http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~sheppard/satellites/satsatdata.html Institute for Astronomy Saturn Satellite Data] * [http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~jewitt/saturn2005.html Jewitt's New Satellites of Saturn page] * [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/08500/08523.html IAUC 8523: ''New Satellites of Saturn''] May 4 2005 (discovery) * [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K05/K05J13.html MPEC 2005-J13: ''Twelve New Satellites of Saturn''] May 3, 2005 (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]]