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Mimas
Moon · Moon of Saturn
About Mimas
On 2026-01-01, the date the map shows, Mimas was 9.52 AU from the Sun; sunlight takes 79.2 minutes to reach it.
It goes round its planet once every 0.95 days, 186,023 km away on average.
It is about 396.4 km across.
The map lists it as a moon and shows it in the Solar System part of the map, drawn on the plane of Earth’s orbit (the ecliptic).
Key numbers
| Orbit radius (semi-major axis) | 186,023 km |
|---|---|
| Orbital period | 0.95 days |
| Eccentricity | 0.0204 |
| Inclination | 29.63° |
| Radius | 198.2 km |
| Distance from the Sun | 9.52 AU |
Where it is
Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Saturn › Solar System › Orion–Cygnus Arm (Local Arm) › Milky Way › Local Group › Virgo Supercluster › Laniakea Supercluster › Observable universe.
Zoom out to see it in context: Neptune and the Kuiper belt, a view about 110 AU across.
From Wikipedia
Mimas is the seventh-largest natural satellite of Saturn. With a mean diameter of 396.4 kilometres or 246.3 miles, Mimas is the smallest astronomical body known to be roughly rounded in shape due to its own gravity.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Mimas, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.