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Hati
or
Saturn XLIII
(provisional designation
S/2004 S 14
) is a
moon
of
Saturn
. Its discovery was announced by
Scott S. Sheppard
,
David C. Jewitt
,
Jan Kleyna
, and
Brian G. Marsden
on May 4, 2005, from observations taken between December 12, 2004, and March 11, 2005.
Hati is about 6 kilometers in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 20,303,000 km in 1080.099 days, at an
inclination
of 163° to the
ecliptic
(165° to Saturn's equator), with an
eccentricity
of 0.291.
It was named in April 2007 after
Hati
, a giant wolf from
Norse mythology
, son of
Fenrisulfr
and twin brother of
Skoll
.
