Phoebe

Phoebe — moon orbiting Saturn, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore Phoebe in a live 3D Solar System. Follow its calculated motion and inspect real astronomical data, distances and orbital facts.

Saturn’s outcast: a captured Kuiper Belt body circling backwards far beyond the regular moons, shedding the dark dust that paints one face of Iapetus black.

Radius

106.5 km

Orbit

12.9 million km from Saturn

Period

550.30 days — retrograde

Orbit

Retrograde, four times farther than Iapetus

Origin

A captured Kuiper Belt object

Feeds

The dark ring that stains Iapetus

Explore Phoebe in 3D

Cosmoscope places Phoebe in the Solar System using astronomical ephemeris or orbital elements, updated for the simulation time. Explore its calculated motion, distance and orbital facts in the interactive 3D view. Accuracy depends on the orbital model and its valid time range.