S/2020 S 9

S/2020 S 9 is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Edward Ashton, Brett J. Gladman, Jean-Marc Petit and Mike Alexandersen on May 15, 2023 from observations taken between August 23, 2019 and August 16, 2020. S/2020 S 9 is about 4 kilometers in diameter, and orbits Saturn at a distance of 25.434 Gm in 1,534.97 days, at an inclination of 161.4, orbits in retrograde direction and eccentricity of 0.531. S/2020 S 9 belongs to the Norse group and one of the most distant moons from Saturn along with S/2004 S 26, S/2004 S 52 and S/2019 S 21.