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Today, the discovery of a 500-meter wide moonlet within an arc of material in Saturn's G Ring was announced by the Cassini Imaging Team:

http://ciclops.org/view/5493/Tiny_Moonl ... G_Ring_Arc

For those who want this moon in Celestia, this code works reasonably well (not perfectly, but given the available orbital elements from the IAUC and from known observations and a future encounter):

I've added this to poormoons.ssc as "2008 S 1".
I'll PM granthutchison to update the official copy (as poormoons.ssc is his baby ).

Here is a better version:

Chuft-Captain wrote:I've added this to poormoons.ssc as "2008 S 1".

poormoons.zip

I'll PM granthutchison to update the official copy (as poormoons.ssc is his baby ).

I sent Selden my own version based on the contents of IAUC #9023, about forty minutes ago as I type this. So it'll appear in due course.

Grant

Cool, you are free to use the epoch and mean anomaly from my first solution above (which use purely the orbital elements from the IAUC, the second is an improvement based on Hedman et al. 2007 on the G ring arc).