Fornjot (moon)
Fornjot or Saturn XLII is the second outermost natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Jan Kleyna, and Brian G. Marsden on 4 May 2005 from observations taken between 12 December 2004, and 11 March 2005.
It is about 6 kilometres in diameter, and it orbits Saturn at an average distance of 23,609 Mm in 1354 at an inclination of 168° to the ecliptic in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.186. It has an ambiguous rotation period of 7 or hours.
Fornjot was named after Fornjót, a giant in Norse mythology.
