Jupiter XI
Carme [KAR-mee] is the fourteenth known satellite of Jupiter. Carme and Zeus were the parents of Britomartis, a Cretan goddess. Very little is known about Carme.
Carme Statistics | |
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Discovered by | S. Nicholson |
Date of discovery | 1938 |
Mass (kg) | 9.56e+16 |
Mass (Earth = 1) | 1.5997e-08 |
Equatorial radius (km) | 20 |
Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) | 3.1358e-03 |
Mean density (gm/cm^3) | 2.8 |
Mean distance from Jupiter (km) | 22,600,000 |
Rotational period (days) | ? |
Orbital period (days) | -692 |
Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) | -2.37 |
Orbital eccentricity | 0.2068 |
Orbital inclination (degrees) | 163 |
Escape velocity (km/sec) | 0.0253 |
Visual geometric albedo | ? |
Magnitude (Vo) | 18.0 |