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Cassini studies tiny, distant moon Kiviuq 

In the nearly 11 years since the Cassini spacecraft began studying the Saturn system, rarely has it observed an object so distant as tiny Kiviuq. And, yet, Kiviuq—just 16 km across—is but the nearest of the elusive Inuit family of Saturnian moons.

Its highly elongated and inclined orbit takes it more than 14.76 million km from Saturn, nearly 40 times further than the distance from the Earth to the Moon.



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