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 | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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