Dione

Saturn IV

Dione Statistics
 Discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini 
 Date of discovery 1684 
 Mass (kg) 1.05e+21 
 Mass (Earth = 1) 1.7570e-04 
 Equatorial radius (km) 560 
 Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) 8.7802e-02 
 Mean density (gm/cm^3) 1.43 
 Mean distance from Saturn (km) 377,400 
 Rotational period (days) 2.736915 
 Orbital period (days) 2.736915 
 Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) 10.03 
 Orbital eccentricity 0.0022 
 Orbital inclination (degrees) 0.02 
 Escape velocity (km/sec) 0.500 
 Surface gravity (m/sec^2) 0.223 
 Visual geometric albedo 0.7 
 Magnitude (Vo) 10.4 
 Mean surface temperature -186.56°C 

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