Tethys

Saturn III

Tethys Statistics
 Discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini 
 Date of discovery 1684 
 Mass (kg) 7.55e+20 
 Mass (Earth = 1) 1.2634e-04 
 Equatorial radius (km) 530 
 Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) 8.3098e-02 
 Mean density (gm/cm^3) 1.21 
 Mean distance from Saturn (km) 294,660 
 Rotational period (days) 1.887802 
 Orbital period (days) 1.887802 
 Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) 11.36 
 Orbital eccentricity 0.0000 
 Orbital inclination (degrees) 1.09 
 Escape velocity (km/sec) 0.436 
 Visual geometric albedo 0.9 
 Magnitude (Vo) 10.2 
 Mean surface temperature -187°C 

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