Discovery of S/2006 S 3

S/2006 S 3 is a small irregular moon of Saturn, found in early 2006 by astronomers surveying the outer regions of the planet's system with large ground-based telescopes. It belongs to the family of distant retrograde moons that orbit Saturn at great distances, and it is probably a captured body only a few kilometres in diameter. It carries a provisional designation, which indicates the year of discovery, the planet and the order of announcement. Further physical details are poorly known.

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