Kari or Saturn XLV (provisional designation S/2006 S 2) is a moon of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Jan Kleyna, and Brian G. Marsden on June 26, 2006, from observations taken between January and April 2006.
Kari is about 7 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 22,305,100 km in 1243.71 days, at an inclination of 148.4° to the ecliptic (151.5° to Saturn's equator), with an eccentricity of 0.3405.
It was named in April 2007 after Kári, son of Fornjót, the personification of wind in Norse mythology.
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Ring shepherds |
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Co-orbitals | |
G Ring | |
Mimas and Alkyonides | |
Inner large (with trojans) | |
Outer large | |
Inuit group | |
Norse group | |
Gallic group | |