Daphnis (moon of Saturn)
Daphnis is seen as a tiny disk in the Keeler Gap of Saturn's rings in this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 1 May 2005, from a distance of 525,000 kilometers (326,000 miles). Image: NASA/JPL.
Daphnis is a small inner moon of Saturn, which orbits within the Keeler Gap of the A-ring of Saturn's rings. The Keeler Gap edges are similar to the scalloped edges of the 322-kilometer-wide (200-miles) Encke Gap, where Pan resides. Daphnis is also known as Saturn XXXV and was given the provisional name S/2005 S1 following its discovery.
| discovery | 2005, Cassini imaging team |
| semimajor axis | 136,505 km (84,838 mi) |
| diameter | 6–8 km |
| orbital period | 0.594 days (14 h 15 min) |
| orbital eccentricity | ~0.0 |
| orbital inclination | ~0.0° |
| visual albedo | 0.5 |
