S/2019 S 1

S/2019 S 1 is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Edward Ashton, Brett J. Gladman, Jean-Marc Petit, and Mike Alexandersen on 16 November 2021 from Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope observations taken between 1 July 2019 and 14 June 2021.
S/2019 S 1 is about ~5 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 11.2 million km in 443.78 days, at an inclination of 44° to the ecliptic, in a prograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.623.
It belongs to the Inuit group of prograde irregular satellites, and its the closest and innermost irregular satellite of Saturn. It might be a fragment of Kiviuq or Ijiraq since S/2019 S 1 is a Kiviuq subgroup member.
S/2019 S 1 gets closer to Iapetus several times per millennium due to of its highly eccentric orbit.
Category:Moons
Category:Saturnian Moons
Category:Inuit Group
Category:Outer Moon of Saturn
Category:Objects with No Atmosphere
Category:Objects Not in Hydrostatic Equilibrium
Category:Outer Solar System Object
Category:Prograde Satellite
Category:Unnamed Objects
Category:Unnamed Moons
Category:Unnumbered Objects
Category:Unnumbered Moons
Category:Kiviuq Subgroup
Category:Irregular Satellites of Saturn