Skadi (Moon)

Skathi, Skadi or Saturn XXVII, is a natural satellite of Saturn. Skathi is about 8 kilometers in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 15,576 Mk in 725.784 days, at an inclination of 149° to the ecliptic (150° to Saturn's equator), in a retrograde direction (in the opposite direction from the planet's rotation) and with an eccentricity of 0.246.

The name is given as Skadi by most sources. This is the name that was originally announced in 2003 CE; however, the IAU Working Group on Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) decided in early 2005 CE to use an alternative transliteration of the Norse spelling. The classical spelling is Skaði, with the letter Ð (eth), and the original form Skadi was a graphic approximation of that.

Skathi may have been formed from debris knocked off Phoebe by large impacts at some point in Sol System's history.

Its name comes from Norse mythology, where Skaði is a giantess who is the wife of the Vanir god Njörðr.