Rhea
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Rhea | |
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Rhea in Orbiter 2016 with D3D9 client | |
Designation | |
Name | Rhea |
Reference body | Saturn |
Planetary mean orbits | |
Epoch | 2005.41409993155 |
Semimajor axis (a) | 527225476.502164 m |
Eccentricity (e) | 0.000909561682184622 |
Inclination (i) | 27.94971857° (0.487814614025395 radian) |
Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊) | 168.8079837° (2.94625511954542 radian) |
Longitude of periapsis (ϖ) | 360.9692475° (6.30010186733614 radian) |
Mean longitude (L) | 448.7342263° (7.83188971564837 radian) |
Selected physical parameters | |
Mean radius | 764000 km |
Mass | 2.49×1021 kg |
Rotation elements | |
SidRotPeriod | 390411 seconds (108.4475 hours or 4.5 days) |
SidRotOffset | 0 |
Obliqutiy | 0.4895 |
LAN | 6.09808 |
Note | *Elements given are from Rhea.cfg (Orbiter 2005P1) |
Rhea is the ninth-largest moon in the Solar System and the second-largest moon of Saturn. Rhea was discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini on 23 December 1672 about the same time he discovered Dione, Iapetus, and Tethys, but the name Rhea referred to by John Herschel stuck.
Rhea in Orbiter[edit]
Rhea was first introduced in Orbiter with the release of Orbiter 2002 in April 2002.
<center?Orbiter versions and add-ons which include Rhea | |||||||
Add-on | Source | Version | Author | Type | Release Date | Compatibility | Wiki article |
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Orbiter 2016 - torrent files | O-F Resources | 2016 | martins | Orbiter Download | 23 August 2016 | Orbiter 2016 | |
Orbiter 2016 Core - MSI / EXE edition | O-F Resources | 2016 | martins | Orbiter Download | 23 August 2016 | Orbiter 2016 | |
Orbiter 2016 Core - ZIP edition | O-F Resources | 2016 | martins | Orbiter download | 23 August 2016 | Orbiter 2016 | |
Orbiter core package download (The actual download page for Orbiter 2016) |
Orbiter download page | Orbiter 2016 | martins | Orbiter download | 23 August 2016 | Orbiter 2016 | |
Celestial Bodies Motion - Part 1/4 - v2.0.0 | O-F Resources | v2.0.0 | cristiapi | Scenery | 2 July 2015 | *module only | |
Orbiter 2010-P1 | O-F Resources | 100830 | martins | Orbiter Download | 30 August 2010 | Orbiter 2010-P1 | |
Orbiter 2010 | O-F Resources | 100606 | martins | Orbiter Download | 5 June 2010 | Orbiter 2010 | |
Orbiter 2006-P1 | O-F Resources | 060929 | martins | Orbiter Download | 29 September 2006 | Orbiter 2006-P1 | |
Orbiter 2006 | O-F Resources | 060504 | martins | Orbiter Download | 4 May 2006 | Orbiter 2006 | |
The Outer Planets 050329 Update | AVSIM | 050329 | Rolf Keibel Tony Dunn Carl Romanik |
Scenery | 30 March 2005 | ||
The Outer Planets 050223 Update | O-F Resources | 2005-02-23 | VF2_Rolf | Scenery | 23 February 2005 | ||
The Outer Planets 050125 | AVSIM | 050125 | Rolf Keibel Tony Dunn |
Scenery | 26 January 2005 | Orbiter 2005-P1 | |
2005 (with P1 patch files) | O-F Resources | 050216 | martins | Orbiter Download | 16 February 2005 | Orbiter 2005 | |
Orbiter 2003-P2 | O-F Resources | 031217 | martins | Orbiter Download | 17 December 2003 | Orbiter 2003-P2 | |
Orbiter 2003-P1 | O-F Resources | 031105 | martins | Orbiter Download | 5 November 2003 | ||
Moons of Saturn Part 3 | AVSIM | Rolf Keibel | Scenery | 19 October 2002 | |||
Orbiter 2002 | O-F Resources | 020419 | martins | Orbiter Download | 19 April 2002 | Orbiter 2002 |
See also[edit]
Gallery[edit]
Rhea as seen by the Cassini spacecraft on 26 November 2005
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