Editing Pallene

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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2" align="center" |Pan
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|colspan="2" align="center"|[[Image:Pallene-outerplanets050329updatezip-Orbiter2005P1.jpg|240px]]
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|colspan="2" align="center"|'''Pallene from ''outerplanets-050125_update.zip'' in Orbiter 2005P1'''
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Designation
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|Name||align="right"|Pallene
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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%"|211000000 m
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|width="30%"|Eccentricity (e)||align="right" width="30%"|0.0051104045080749
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|width="30%"|Inclination (i)||align="right" width="30%"|28.0601750677347° <br> (0.489742443617994 radian)
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|width="30%"|Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊)||align="right" width="30%"|169.512404960814° <br> (2.95854958954017 radian)
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|width="30%"|Longitude of periapsis (ϖ)||align="right" width="30%"|393.219011935017° <br> (6.86296643970493 radian)
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|width="30%"|Mean longitude (L)||align="right" width="30%"|415.654360021651° <br> (7.25453713264769 radian)
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Selected physical parameters
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|width="30%"|Mean radius||align="right" width="30%"|2100 m
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|width="30%"|Mass||align="right" width="30%"|1.241×10<sup>16</sup> kg
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|width="30%"|SidRotPeriod||align="right" width="30%"|98223 seconds (27.284 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 Pallene.cfg (outerplanets-050329_update.zip)
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'''Pallene (Saturn XXXIII, S/2004 S 2)''' a prograde [[Natural satellite|moon]] of [[Saturn]]. It orbits outside of the ring system between the orbits of [[Mimas]] and [[Enceladus]]. Pallene 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]].

== Pallene in Orbiter ==
Pallene 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 Pallene'''</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=op-update-061004.zip&Author=&CatID=root The Outer Planets Update 061004]||AVSIM||061004||Rolf Keibel<br>Carl Romanik<br>Tony Dunn||Scenery||4 October 2006||||
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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:Pallene (moon)|Pallene]] at [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths="100" heights="100">
Pallene-outerplanets050329updatezip-Orbiter2005P1.jpg|<center>Pallene from ''outerplanets-050329_update.zip'' in Orbiter 2005P1</center>
S2004s2 040601.jpg|<center>Discovery image of Pallene imaged by [[w:Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]] on 1 June 2004<br>from Wikimedia Commons</center>
Pallene Cassini color-crop 20101016.png|<center>Pallene imaged by Cassini from a distance of 36000 km on 16 October 2010 transiting Saturn<br>from Wikimedia Commons</center>
</gallery>

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