Elara
Jupiter VII
Elara [EE-lar-uh] is the twelfth known satellite of Jupiter. Elara and Zeus
were the parents of Tityus the giant.
Very little is known about Elara.
Elara Statistics
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Discovered by | C. Perrine
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Date of discovery | 1905
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Mass (kg) | 7.77e+17
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Mass (Earth = 1) | 1.3002e-07
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Equatorial radius (km) | 38
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Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) | 5.9580e-03
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Mean density (gm/cm^3) | 3.3
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Mean distance from Jupiter (km) | 11,737,000
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Rotational period (days) | 0.5
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Orbital period (days) | 259.6528
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Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) | 3.29
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Orbital eccentricity | 0.2072
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Orbital inclination (degrees) | 24.77
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Escape velocity (km/sec) | 0.0522
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Visual geometric albedo | 0.03
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Magnitude (Vo) | 16.77
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