Mimas

Saturn I

Mimas Statistics
 Discovered by William Herschel 
 Date of discovery 1789 
 Mass (kg) 3.80e+19 
 Mass (Earth = 1) 6.3588e-06 
 Equatorial radius (km) 196 
 Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) 3.0731e-02 
 Mean density (gm/cm^3) 1.17 
 Mean distance from Saturn (km) 185,520 
 Rotational period (days) 0.942422 
 Orbital period (days) 0.942422 
 Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) 14.32 
 Orbital eccentricity 0.0202 
 Orbital inclination (degrees) 1.53 
 Escape velocity (km/sec) 0.161 
 Visual geometric albedo 0.5 
 Magnitude (Vo) 12.9 
 Mean surface temperature -200°C 

Mimas/UIUC/sulfridg@uiuc.edu /revised August 98