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- 1.1 Main graph
2 Data source
3 Licensing

[edit] Summary

The irregular satellites of Saturn. Plotted by a program written by Eurocommuter.

[edit] Main graph

The position of a satellite represents

its orbit’s semi-major axis a in Gm (horizontal axis)
orbit’s inclination i in degrees (vertical axis).
the size of the circle illustrates the satellites's size relative to others:

The eccentricity of the orbit is shown indirectly by a segment extending from the left (pericenter) to the apocentre to the right. In other words, the segment illustrates the variations of the object's distance from the planet.

Satellites beneath the axis (i>90) are retrograde.

[edit] Data source

Based on the data collected by David Jewitt (July 2006).

Description	Irregular satellites of Saturn
Source	Plotted by a program written by the User:Eurocommuter
Date	28 July 2006
Author	User:Eurocommuter
Permission	see Licence tag

[edit] Licensing

I, the author of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".