Leda [LEE-duh] is the ninth known and smallest satellite of Jupiter. Leda was the queen of Sparta and the mother of Helen and Pollux. The picture shown above is the discovery image of Leda. Very little is known about Leda.
Leda Statistics Discovered byC. Kowal Date of discovery1974 Mass (kg)5.68e+15 Mass (Earth = 1)9.5047e-10 Equatorial radius (km)8 Equatorial radius (Earth = 1)1.2543e-03 Mean density (gm/cm^3)2.7 Mean distance from Jupiter (km)11,094,000 Rotational period (days)? Orbital period (days)238.72 Mean orbital velocity (km/sec)3.38 Orbital eccentricity0.1476 Orbital inclination (degrees)26.07 Escape velocity (km/sec)0.0097 Visual geometric albedo? Magnitude (Vo)20.2
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