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Tarvos

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Summary

Tarvos is a moon of Saturn[1]. Tarvos draws 139 Wikipedia views per month (moon of saturn category, ranking #38 of 96).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Brett J. Gladman[3], John J. Kavelaars[4]
  • Instance of: irregular moon[5]
  • Named after: Tarvos Trigaranus[6]
  • Commons category: Tarvos (moon)[7]
  • Parent astronomical body: Saturn[8]
  • Provisional designation: S/2000 S 4[9]
  • Time of discovery or invention: September 23, 2000[10]
  • Orbital eccentricity: 0.5305[11]
  • Color index: 0.77[12], 0.57[13]
  • Orbital inclination: 33.825 degree[14]
  • Mass: 2.7 exagram[15]
  • Orbital period: 926.2 day[16]
  • Semi-major axis of an orbit: 18,239,000 km[17]
  • Diameter: 15 km[18]
  • Name: Saturn XXI[19]
  • Albedo: 0.04[20]

Why It Matters

Tarvos has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Tarvos is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . arxiv.org. arxiv.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . arxiv.org. arxiv.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · ~2026-51439-50 · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Color index → {'amount': '+0.77'}, {'amount': '+0.57'}
    Mass → {'unit': 'Q2655272', 'amount': '+2.7'}
    Semi-major axis of an orbit → {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+18239000'}
    Instance of → moon of Saturn, irregular moon
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Fandom article id: thesolarsystem:Tarvos"
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