Fornjot, also known as Saturn XLIII, is a natural satellite of Saturn. It was discovered on January 15, 2006, by a team of astronomers led by Scott S. Sheppard, using the Subaru telescope in Hawaii. Fornjot is a retrograde irregular moon, meaning that it orbits Saturn in a direction opposite to the planet's rotation. Its orbit is highly eccentric, with an eccentricity of 0.354. Fornjot is estimated to be about 6 kilometers in diameter, and it orbits Saturn at an average distance of 24.5 million kilometers. It takes approximately 1455 days to complete one orbit around Saturn. Like many of Saturn's irregular moons, Fornjot is thought to be a captured object, possibly originating from the Kuiper Belt, a region of the solar system beyond Neptune. Fornjot is named after a giant in Norse mythology who is the father of the wind god, Ægir. The name Fornjot means "ancient giant" in Old Norse. The naming convention for Saturn's moons is based on the mythology of the Norse, Gallic, and Inuit cultures
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