Dione
Dione | |
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Diione in Orbiter 2016 with D3D9 client | |
Designation | |
Name | Dione |
Reference body | Saturn |
Planetary mean orbits | |
Epoch | 2005.41409993155 |
Semimajor axis (a) | 377653774.68302 m |
Eccentricity (e) | 0.00273184023667722 |
Inclination (i) | 27.94971857° (0.489579654469251 radian) |
Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊) | 168.8079837° (2.95959510683463 radian) |
Longitude of periapsis (ϖ) | 360.9692475° (8.8707932193739 radian) |
Mean longitude (L) | 448.7342263° (14.9544021900058 radian) |
Selected physical parameters | |
Mean radius | 5600 km |
Mass | 1.05×1021 kg |
Rotation elements | |
SidRotPeriod | 236530 seconds (65.7 hours) |
SidRotOffset | 0 |
Obliqutiy | 0.4895 |
LAN | 6.09808 |
Note | *Elements given are from Dione.cfg (Orbiter 2005) |
Dione is the fourth-largest moon of Saturn, discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini on 30 March 1684, but the name was applied by John Herschel in 1847, and that one stuck.
Dione in Orbiter
Dione was introduced to Orbiter with the release of Orbiter 2002 on 19 April 2002, and has been a part since.
Rolf Keibel included Dione in his Moons of Saturn Part 3 add-on with a new texture
Project home: Moons of Saturn Part 3 |
A new add-on of outer planet moons was released on 25 January 2005, and updated a month later, then again in March.
Project home: The Outer Planets 050125 |
Project home: The Outer Planets 050223 Update |
Project home: The Outer Planets 050329 Update |
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