Editing Methone

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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2" align="center" |Pan
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|colspan="2" align="center"|[[Image:Methone-outerplanets050329updatezip-Orbiter2005P1.jpg|240px]]
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|colspan="2" align="center"|'''Methone from ''outerplanets-050125_update.zip'' in Orbiter 2005P1'''
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Designation
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|Name||align="right"|Methone
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|width="30%"|Reference body||align="right" width="30%"|Saturn
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Planetary mean orbits
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|width="30%"|Epoch||align="right" width="50%"|2005.41409993155
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|width="30%"|Semimajor axis (a)||align="right" width="50%"|194000000 m
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|width="30%"|Eccentricity (e)||align="right" width="30%"|0.0071414566996186
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|width="30%"|Inclination (i)||align="right" width="30%"|28.0090475413464° <br> (.488850099944117 radian)
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|width="30%"|Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊)||align="right" width="30%"|169.466387305412° <br> (2.95774642993936 radian)
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|width="30%"|Longitude of periapsis (ϖ)||align="right" width="30%"|194.175872804504° <br> (3.38900830837231 radian)
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|width="30%"|Mean longitude (L)||align="right" width="30%"|518.977760878948° <br> (9.05787067196546 radian)
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Selected physical parameters
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|width="30%"|Mean radius||align="right" width="30%"|1700 m
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|width="30%"|Mass||align="right" width="30%"|1.191×10<sup>16</sup> kg
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|width="30%"|SidRotPeriod||align="right" width="30%"|94776 seconds (26.3267 hours)
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|width="30%"|SidRotOffset||align="right" width="30%"|0
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|width="30%+|Obliquity||align="right" width="30%"|0.4895
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|width="30%"|LAN||align=right" width="30%"|6.09808
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|width="30%"|Note||align="right" width="30%"|*Elements given are from Methone.cfg (outerplanets-050329_update.zip)
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'''Methone (Saturn XXXII, S/2004 S 1)''' a [[Natural satellite|moon]] of [[Saturn]]. It orbits outside of the ring system between the orbits of [[Mimas]] and [[Enceladus]]. Methone was discovered in 2004 by the [[w:Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]] imaging team. It was named after on of the seven beautiful daughters of [[w:Alcyoneus|Alcyoneus]].

== Methone in Orbiter ==
Methone was introduced to Orbiter with the release of ''outerplanets-050329_update.zip'' in 2005.

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|colspan="8"|<center>'''Orbiter versions and add-ons which include Methone'''</center>
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!Add-on!!Source!!Version!!Author!!Type!!Release Date!!Compatibility!!Wiki article
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|[https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=&Name=&FileName=outerplanets-050329_update.zip&Author=&CatID=root The Outer Planets 050329 Update]||AVSIM||050329||Rolf Keibel<br>Tony Dunn<br>Carl Romanik||Scenery||30 March 2005||||
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== See also ==
[[w:Moethone (moon)|Methone]] at [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths="100" heights="100">
Methone-outerplanets050329updatezip-Orbiter2005P1.jpg|<center>Methone from ''outerplanets-050329_update.zip'' in Orbiter 2005P1</center>
Methone PIA14633.jpg|<center>The leading face of Methone imaged by [[w:Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]] on 20 May 2012<br>from Wikimedia Commons</center>
Methone (frame 15).jpg|<center>Discovery image of Methone on 1 June 2004<br>from Wikimedia Commons</center>
</gallery>

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