Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, and Jan Kleyna on October 8, 2019 from observations taken between December 12, 2004 and February 25, 2006.
[4] On 24 August 2022, it was officially named after Alvaldi, a jötunn from Norse mythology.
[5] He was very rich in gold, and when he died his sons divided his inheritance by taking a mouthful each.
[6][7] Alvaldi is about 5 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 22.412 Gm in 1253.08 days, at an inclination of 177° to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.194.
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