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(f´b), in astronomy, one of the 18 named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn.

Phoebe
Saturn IX
Phoebe ("FEE bee") is the outermost of Saturn's known satellites. Phoebe is almost 4 times more distant from Saturn than its nearest neighbor (Iapetus). orbit: 12,952,000 km from Saturn diameter: 220 km mass: 4.0e18 kg ...

Phoebe
Saturn IX
Phoebe [FEE-bee], one of the outer satellites of Saturn, was discovered by William H. Pickering from a photographic plate taken on the night of August 16, 1898 with a 24-inch refracting telescope located in Areguipa, Peru.

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Phoebe is 4 times more distant from Saturn than Iapetus its nearest neighbor. This small world was discovered by Pickering in 1898.

Phoebe travels around the ringed planet in the opposite sense to all the other moons suggesting it may have been captured from solar orbit. Cassini's images of Phoebe showed it to be heavily cratered and irregular in shape.

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Phoebe is one of the smaller of the 18 moons of Saturn. Phoebe has an almost circular shape and a reddish color. It rotates on its axis every 9 hours, unlike the other moons of Saturn (except Hyperion) which always show the same face to Saturn.

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Phoebe: Saturn's moon
Pioneer: Probe to the gas giants
Planet: Derived from the Greek meaning 'wanderer', a planet is a body orbiting a star that is not a star itself.

Phoebe
The outermost satellite of Saturn, discovered by Pickering in 1898. Period 550 days retrograde: radius about 100 km.
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Phoebe in astronomy, one of the named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn. Also known as Saturn IX (or S9), Phoebe is 137 mi (220 km) in diameter, orbits Saturn at a mean distance of 8,047,985 mi (12,952,000 km), has an orbital period of 550.

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Phoebe A satellite of Saturn orbiting at a mean distance of 12,960,000 kilometers. Phoenix (abbr Phe, Phoe) See constellation. phon The unit of loudness level of sound, numerically equal to the sound pressure level in decibels, relative to 0.

For example, Jupiter's moon Himalia, Saturn's moon Phoebe and Neptune's moon Nereid have rotation period in the range of 10 hours compared with their orbital periods of hundreds of days.
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For the entire 20th century, Phoebe stood alone among Saturn's known moons in its highly irregular orbit. Beginning in 2000, three dozen additional irregular moons have been found using ground-based telescopes.

The Cassini spacecraft snapped this image of Saturn's moon Phoebe as it flew past the moon on Friday. It was the first of almost 80 close passes by Saturn and its moons for Cassini, which will enter orbit around Saturn on June 30.

Although 220 km (137 miles) in diameter, the largest outer moon, Phoebe, is dark with a retrograde, highly inclined orbit and so may be a captured icy body from the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt rather than a moon that formed with the giant planet.

In June, 2004, it had conducted a close flyby of Phoebe sending back high-resolution images and data. The orbiter completed two Titan flybys before releasing the Huygens probe on December 25, 2004.

This dark region and the rotation of the satellite are the cause of the variations of brightness that were noticed by Cassini in 1671. Phoebe, the farthest satellite, moves in a retrograde orbit that is highly inclined to Saturn's equator.

Idas and Lynceus (who were also members of the Argo's crew) were engaged to Phoebe and Hilaira, but Castor and Polydeuces carried them off. Idas and Lynceus gave pursuit and the two sets of twins fought it out.

including Titan (the largest), Rhea, Iapetus, Dione, Tethys, Enceladus, Mimas, Hyperion, Phoebe, Janus, Epimetheus, Pandora, Prometheus, Helene, Telesto, Atlas, Calypso, and Pan (the smallest named moon of Saturn).

According to Jeri Taylor's book Mosaic, Janeway's sister is named Phoebe. Also, according to this novel, Janeway's middle name is Elizabeth.
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Number of satellites: At least 21 (Pan, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Telesto, Calypso, Dione, Helene, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus, Phoebe, 1995-S3, 1995-S4, and 1995-S5) ...

The dark side may be due to many tiny impacts with mini meteorites kicked up by debris kicked up by meteorites colliding with Phoebe. This could be seen as the largest game of billiards in the solar system.

The first proposes that dark material from Phoebe, a dark exterior moon, falls onto Iapetus from orbit. The second model says that the dark material erupted from the interior of Iapetus into a low area in the leading hemisphere.

Saturn's known moons are (from nearest to furthest from the planet): Pan, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Telesto, Calypso, Dione, Helene, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Phoebe.

Orbital and rotation period 7h39m14s, e = 0.021, i = 1°.1. Visual geometric albedo 0.06. Infrared observations suggest that its surface is covered with dust. Phobos lies just outside the Martian Roche limit. [H76] Phoebe ...

Exceptions occur in the case of the satellites of Uranus, which are nearly perpendicular to the plane of the orbit. The satellite of Neptune, and one satellite, Phoebe, of Saturn, are also quite exceptional, the direction of motion being retrograde.

See also: Orbit, Earth, Solar, Saturn, Planet