Loge or Saturn XLVI is a

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of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by

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, and

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on 26 June 2006, from observations taken between January and April 2006. Loge is about 6 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 23,142,000 km in 1314.364 days, at an

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of 166.5° to the

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(165.3° to Saturn's equator), in a retrograde direction and with an

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of 0.1390. It has a tentative rotation period of about hours, but this is highly uncertain as the light curve is the shallowest among all the irregular moons studied by '' Cassini–Huygens'' (amplitude about 0.07 magnitudes). It was named in April 2007, after Logi, a fire giant from Norse mythology.

References

Institute for Astronomy Saturn Satellite Data

June 30, 2006 (discovery)

June 26, 2006 (discovery and ephemeris)

April 5, 2007 (naming the moon) {{DEFAULTSORT:Loge (Moon) Norse group Moons of Saturn Irregular satellites Discoveries by Scott S. Sheppard Astronomical objects discovered in 2006 Moons with a retrograde orbit