Inuit group

The Inuit group is a dynamical grouping of prograde irregular satellites of Saturn which follow similar orbits. Although almost all irregular moons are believed to have originated from a captured asteroid that later got involved in a collision, it is not currently known whether all the members in the Inuit group originated from a single progenitor, though the moons with measured colours appear similar to each other. Within the Inuit group, there are three clusterings or subgroups, each associated with a moon (Kiviuq, Paaliaq, and Siarnaq) and a distinct semi-major axis. It is unclear how a collisional family could have ended up with as large of a spread in semi-major axis as the Inuit group is, however, the probability of three unrelated clusters having a similar inclination by coincidence is low.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) uses names taken from Inuit mythology for these moons, though only five of them have names at present.

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