Carme

Jupiter XI

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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.

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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 ..................................... 163°

Escape Velocity (km/sec) ............................. 0.0253

Visual geometric albedo ................................... ?
Magnitude (Vo) ......................................... 18.0

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Author: Calvin J. Hamilton.