Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, and Jan Kleyna on October 7, 2019 from observations taken between December 12, 2004 and March 22, 2007.
[4] On 24 August 2022, it was officially named after Útgarða-Loki (also known as Skrýmir).
[5] He is a jötunn from Norse mythology and master of illusions.
[6] Skrymir is about 4 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 21.163 Gm in 1149.82 days, at an inclination of 177° to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.373.
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