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 March 22, 2007.
[4] On 24 August 2022, it was officially named after Þjazi, a jötunn from Norse mythology.
[5] He is a son of Alvaldi and kidnapped the goddess Iðunn, who guarded the apples of the gods.
[6] Thiazzi is about 4 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 24.168 Gm in 1403.18 days, at an inclination of 160° to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.399.
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