Europa

Jupiter II

Europa Statistics
 Discovered by Simon Marius & Galileo Galilei 
 Date of discovery 1610 
 Mass (kg) 4.8e+22 
 Mass (Earth = 1) 8.0321e-03 
 Equatorial radius (km) 1,569 
 Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) 2.4600e-01 
 Mean density (gm/cm^3) 3.01 
 Mean distance from Jupiter (km) 670,900 
 Rotational period (days) 3.551181 
 Orbital period (days) 3.551181 
 Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) 13.74 
 Orbital eccentricity 0.009 
 Orbital inclination (degrees) 0.470 
 Escape velocity (km/sec) 2.02 
 Visual geometric albedo 0.64 
 Magnitude (Vo) 5.29 

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