Discovery of Suttungr

Suttungr is a small irregular moon of Saturn, about seven kilometres across, that orbits the planet at a large distance in a tilted, elongated path in the direction opposite to Saturn's rotation. It was discovered in 2000 by a team led by Brett Gladman, which used large ground-based telescopes to look for faint moons around the giant planets and found several at the same time. Suttungr is a member of the Norse group of Saturn's satellites, which are probably the broken remains of one larger captured body. It is named after Suttungr, a giant in Norse mythology who kept the mead of poetry, which the god Odin later stole.

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