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English: Orbits of Saturn's 250 known outer irregular satellites as of March 2025, with positions set on 5 May 2025 (JD 2460800.5). The moon orbits are colored based on their direction of orbits; prograde satellites are colored blue while retrograde satellites are colored red. Saturn's regular satellites (close, low-inclination circular orbits) are colored in turquoise; the outermost regular satellite is Iapetus. Orbits of irregular moons are taken from the Minor Planet Center's Natural Satellites Ephemeris Service (MPC-NSES), and positions of satellites are indicated by white dots. Note that the MPC-NSES only provides osculating/Keplerian orbital elements and does not take gravitational perturbations by other bodies into account. The trajectories shown here are approximate (i.e. accurate on the date of the reference epoch defined for the orbit, but are inaccurate if you extrapolate the trajectory several months before or after that epoch).
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