

Nine are more than 100 km (60 miles) in radius and were discovered telescopically before the 20th century the others were found in an analysis of Voyager images in the early 1980s. Of the first 18 discovered, all but the much more distant moon Phoebe orbit within about 3.6 million km (2.2 million miles) of Saturn. Names, traditional numbers, and orbital and physical characteristics are listed individually. Saturn possesses more than 60 known moons, data for which are summarized in the table.
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