- Loge (moon)
Loge (pronEng|ˈlɔɪ.eɪ "LOY-ey," or spelling pronunciation IPAlink-en|ˈlɔʊgi "LOH-gee)," or Saturn XLVI (provisional designation S/2006 S 5) is a
natural satellite ofSaturn . Its discovery was announced byScott S. Sheppard ,David C. Jewitt ,Jan Kleyna , andBrian G. Marsden onJune 26 ,2006 , from observations taken between January and April 2006.Loge is about 6 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 23,142.0 Mm in 1314.364 days, at an
inclination of 166.5° to theecliptic (165.3° to Saturn's equator), in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.1390.It was named in April 2007, after Loge (also spelled
Logi ), a fire giant fromNorse mythology , son ofFornjót , sometimes confused with the godLoki .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)
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