Lysithea
Jupiter X
Lysithea [ly-SITH-ee-uh] is the eleventh known satellite of Jupiter. Lysithea was a daughter of Oceanus and one of Zeus's lovers. Very little is known about Lysithea.
| Lysithea Statistics | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | S. Nicholson |
| Date of discovery | 1938 |
| Mass (kg) | 7.77e+16 |
| Mass (Earth = 1) | 1.3002e-08 |
| Equatorial radius (km) | 18 |
| Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) | 2.8222e-03 |
| Mean density (gm/cm^3) | 3.1 |
| Mean distance from Jupiter (km) | 11,720,000 |
| Rotational period (days) | ? |
| Orbital period (days) | 259.22 |
| Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) | 3.29 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.107 |
| Orbital inclination (degrees) | 29.02 |
| Escape velocity (km/sec) | 0.0240 |
| Visual geometric albedo | ? |
| Magnitude (Vo) | 18.4 |
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