Tethys Trojan group

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The Tethys Trojan group is a set of small moons that share Saturn’s moon Tethys’ orbit, residing near its stable Lagrange points.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tethys Trojan group canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Trojan moon group
Trojan moon of Tethys
group of natural satellites
major moon of Saturn
natural satellite
belongsTo Saturnian Trojan moons
linked to: Tethys Trojan moons
celestialBodyType co-orbital moons
gravitationallyPerturbedBy Saturn
Tethys
other Saturnian moons
hasCentralBody Saturn
hasDiscoveryContext discovered via Earth-based telescopic observations
hasDynamicalClassification Trojan satellites
hasMember Calypso
Telesto
hasNamingConvention members named after characters from Greek mythology
hasObservationSource Cassini–Huygens mission
linked to: Cassini–Huygens

Voyager missions
linked to: Voyager program
hasOrbitalCharacteristic low orbital eccentricity
low orbital inclination
same semi-major axis as Tethys
hasOrbitalPlane near Saturn’s equatorial plane
hasOrbitalResonanceType 1:1 mean-motion resonance with Tethys
hasPrimary Tethys
hasTrojanGroup Tethys Trojan group
locatedIn Saturnian system
memberOf Tethys Trojan group
Tethys Trojan group
natural satellites of Saturn
orbits Saturn
Saturn
Saturn
Saturn
residesNear L4 Lagrange point of Tethys
L4 Lagrange point of Tethys
L5 Lagrange point of Tethys
linked to: Tethys Trojan moons

L5 Lagrange point of Tethys
sharesOrbitWith Tethys
Tethys
Tethys
stabilityReason gravitational equilibrium at Tethys’ Lagrange points

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Telesto memberOf Tethys Trojan group
Telesto memberOf Tethys Trojan group
subject linked to: Tethys Trojan group
Calypso memberOf Tethys Trojan group
subject linked to: Tethys Trojan group
Tethys hasTrojanGroup Tethys Trojan group
subject linked to: Tethys Trojan group