Tarvos is an irregular moon of Saturn, around fifteen kilometers across, discovered in 2000 by a team led by Brett Gladman. It belongs to the Gallic group, a family of moons that orbit Saturn at a great distance in the same direction as the planet's spin, along with Albiorix and Erriapus. Its name comes from Tarvos Trigaranus, a Gallic god in the form of a bull with three cranes. It is thought to have been captured by Saturn, perhaps as a fragment of a larger body that broke up.
Before and after
- 23 September 2000Discovery of Ijiraq
- 23 September 2000Discovery of Skathi
- 23 September 2000Discovery of Erriapus
- 23 September 2000Discovery of Siarnaq
- 23 September 2000Discovery of Tarvos
- 23 September 2000Discovery of Mundilfari
- 23 September 2000Discovery of Suttungr
- 23 September 2000Discovery of Thrymr
- from 28 September 2000 to 8 February 2005Second Intifada
More in Universe & space
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- 5 September 1977Launch of Voyager 1
- 4 March 1979Discovery of Metis
- 24 April 1990Launch of Hubble Space Telescope
- 10 April 2019The first image of a black hole
- 25 December 2021Launch of James Webb Space Telescope
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