Callisto

Jupiter IV

Callisto Statistics
 Discovered by Simon Marius & Galileo Galilei 
 Date of discovery 1610 
 Mass (kg) 1.08e+23 
 Mass (Earth = 1) 1.8072e-02 
 Equatorial radius (km) 2,400 
 Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) 3.7629e-01 
 Mean density (gm/cm^3) 1.86 
 Mean distance from Jupiter (km) 1,883,000 
 Rotational period (days) 16.68902 
 Orbital period (days) 16.68902 
 Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) 8.21 
 Orbital eccentricity 0.007 
 Orbital inclination (degrees) 0.281 
 Escape velocity (km/sec) 2.45 
 Visual geometric albedo 0.20 
 Magnitude (Vo) 5.65 

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