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Tethys is a natural satillite of [[Saturn]].
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2" align="center" |Tethys
 
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|colspan="2" align="center"|[[Image:Tethys.jpg|240px]]
 
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|colspan="2" align="center"|'''Tethys with Saturn in Orbiter 2016 with D3D9 client'''
 
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Designation
 
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|Name||align="right"|Tethys
 
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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%"|294982634.56239 m
 
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|width="30%"|Eccentricity (e)||align="right" width="30%"|0.00107532665445937
 
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|width="30%"|Inclination (i)||align="right" width="30%"|26.97242049° <br> (0.470757544726676 radian)
 
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|width="30%"|Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊)||align="right" width="30%"|169.1532561° <br> (2.95228125917919 radian)
 
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|width="30%"|Longitude of periapsis (ϖ)||align="right" width="30%"|496.8246271° <br> (8.67122554777855 radian)
 
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|width="30%"|Mean longitude (L)||align="right" width="30%"|502.6123366° <br> (8.77224013508484 radian)
 
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Selected physical parameters
 
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|width="30%"|Mean radius||align="right" width="30%"|530000 km
 
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|width="30%"|Mass||align="right" width="30%"|6.22×10<sup>20</sup> kg
 
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Rotation elements
 
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|width="30%"|SidRotPeriod||align="right" width="30%"|163129 seconds (45.3136 hours)
 
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|width="30%"|SidRotOffset||align="right" width="30%"|0
 
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|width="30%"|Obliqutiy||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 Tethys.cfg (Orbiter 2005P1)
 
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'''Tethys''' is the 5th largest moon of [[Saturn]], discovered on 11 March 1684 by [[w:Giovanni Domenico Cassini|Giovanni Domenico Cassini]], who named it Saturn IV, but [[w:John Herschel|John Hershel]] referred to it at Tethys, and that is the name that stuck.
 
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== Tethys in Orbiter ==
 
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Tethys was introduced to [[Orbiter]] with the release of Orbiter 2002, but was also included in a number of [[Add-on|add-ons]] as indicated in the above tables.
 
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|colspan="8"|<center>'''Orbiter versions and add-ons which include Tethys'''</center>
 
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!Add-on!!Source!!Version!!Author!!Type!!Release Date!!Compatibility!!Wiki article
 
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|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/2005-with-p1-patch-files.5432/ 2005 (with P1 patch files)]||O-F Resources||050216||martins||Orbiter Download||16 February 2005||Orbiter 2005||
 
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|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/orbiter-2003-p2.5433/ Orbiter 2003-P2]||O-F Resources||031217||martins||Orbiter Download||17 December 2003||Orbiter 2003-P2||
 
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|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/orbiter-2003-p1.5434/ Orbiter 2003-P1]||O-F Resources||031105||martins||Orbiter Download||5 November 2003||Orbiter 2003-P1|
 
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|[https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=&Name=&FileName=osaturn.zip&Author=&CatID=root Moons of Saturn Part 3]||AVSIM||||Rolf Keibel||Scenery||19 October 2002||||
 
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|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/orbiter-2002.5436/ Orbiter 2002]||O-F Resources||020419||martins||Orbiter Download||19 April 2002||Orbiter 2002||
 
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== See also ==
 
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[[w:Tethys (moon)|Tethys]] at [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]
 
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== Gallery ==
 
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<gallery widths="200" heights="200">
 
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TethysOrbiter2002.jpg|<center>Tethys in Orbiter 2002</center>
 
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Tethys-orbiter2002p3.jpg|<center>Tethys in Orbiter 2002P3</center>
 
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Tethys-Orbiter2003P2.jpg|<center>Tethys in Orbiter 2003P2</center>
 
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Tethys-Orbiter2005P1.jpg|<center>Tethys in Orbiter 2005P1</center>
 
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PIA18317-SaturnMoon-Tethys-Cassini-20150411.jpg|<center>Tethys as seen by the [[w:Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]] spacecraft on 11 April 2015<br>from Wikimedia Commons</center>
 
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</gallery>
 
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{{SaturnSat}}
 
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{{SolarSystem}}
 
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[[Category: Articles]]
 
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[[Category: Celestial bodies]]
 
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[[Category:Solar System]]
 
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[[Category: Natural satellites]]
 
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[[Category:Satellites of Saturn]]
 
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