Loge (moon)

{{Short description|Moon of Saturn}}

{{Other uses|Loge (disambiguation){{!}}Loge}}

{{Infobox planet

| name = Loge

| image = Loge N1803341947.png

| image_scale =

| caption = Loge (circled) imaged by the Cassini spacecraft in February 2015

| pronounced = {{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|ɔɪ|.|eɪ}} or spelling pronunciation {{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|oʊ|ɡ|iː}}

| named_after = Logi

| mpc_name = Saturn XLVI

| alt_names = S/2006 S 5

| discovered = 2006

| discoverer = Scott S. Sheppard
David C. Jewitt
Jan T. Kleyna
Brian G. Marsden

| orbit_ref = [https://sites.google.com/carnegiescience.edu/sheppard/moons/saturnmoons S.S. Sheppard (2019), Moons of Saturn, Carnegie Science, on line]

| semimajor = {{val|23065000|u=km}}

| inclination = 167.9°

| eccentricity = 0.187

| period = −1312.0 days

| satellite_of = Saturn

| group = Norse group

| physical_ref =

| mean_diameter = {{val|5|50|30|+errend=%|-errend=%|u=km}}

| rotation = {{val|6.9|.1}}? h

| albedo = 0.06 (assumed)

| spectral_type = r – i = 0.15 ± 0.08{{Cite journal |last1=Peña |first1=José |last2=Fuentes |first2=Cesar |date=2022-05-17 |title=Colors of Irregular Satellites of Saturn with the Dark Energy Camera |journal=The Astronomical Journal |language=en |volume=163 |issue=6 |pages=274 |doi=10.3847/1538-3881/ac6258 |doi-access=free |arxiv=2204.08391 |bibcode=2022AJ....163..274P |issn=1538-3881}}

| magnitude = 24.6

| abs_magnitude = 15.3

}}

Loge or Saturn XLVI is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Jan Kleyna, and Brian G. Marsden on 26 June 2006, from observations taken between January and April 2006.

Loge is about 5 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 23,142,000 km in 1314.364 days, at an inclination of 166.5° to the ecliptic (165.3° to Saturn's equator), in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.1390. It has a tentative rotation period of about {{val|6.9|0.1}} hours,{{cite conference

|title=Cassini Observations of Saturn's Irregular Moons

|url=https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2019/pdf/2654.pdf

|first1=T. |last1=Denk

|first2=S. |last2=Mottola

|conference=50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

|publisher=Lunar and Planetary Institute

|number=2132

|year=2019}} but this is highly uncertain as the light curve is the shallowest among all the irregular moons studied by Cassini–Huygens (amplitude about 0.07 magnitudes).{{cite book |last1=Denk |first1=Tilmann |url= |title=Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn |last2=Mottola |first2=Stefano |last3=Tosi |first3=Frederico |last4=Bottke |first4=William F. |last5=Hamilton |first5=Douglas P. |publisher=The University of Arizona Press |year=2018 |isbn=9780816537075 |editor1=Schenk, P.M. |series=Space Science Series |volume=322 |location=Tucson, AZ |pages=409–434 |chapter=The Irregular Satellites of Saturn |bibcode=2018eims.book..409D |doi=10.2458/azu_uapress_9780816537075-ch020 |editor2=Clark, R.N. |editor3=Howett, C.J.A. |editor4=Verbiscer, A.J. |editor5=Waite, J.H. |chapter-url=https://tilmanndenk.de/wp-content/uploads/DenkEtAl2018_IrregularMoons.pdf}}

It was named in April 2007, after Logi, a fire giant from Norse mythology.