Carme
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
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| Date of discovery | 1938
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| Mass (kg) | 9.56e+16
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| Mass (Earth = 1) | 1.5997e-08
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| Equatorial radius (km) | 20
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| Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) | 3.1358e-03
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| Mean density (gm/cm^3) | 2.8
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| Mean distance from Jupiter (km) | 22,600,000
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| Rotational period (days) | ?
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| Orbital period (days) | -692
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| Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) | -2.37
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| Orbital eccentricity | 0.2068
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| Orbital inclination (degrees) | 163
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| Escape velocity (km/sec) | 0.0253
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| Visual geometric albedo | ?
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| Magnitude (Vo) | 18.0
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