Io

Jupiter I

Io Statistics
 Discovered by Simon Marius & Galileo Galilei 
 Date of discovery 1610 
 Mass (kg) 8.94e+22 
 Mass (Earth = 1) 1.4960e-02 
 Equatorial radius (km) 1,815 
 Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) 2.8457e-01 
 Mean density (gm/cm^3) 3.55 
 Mean distance from Jupiter (km) 421,600 
 Rotational period (days) 1.769138 
 Orbital period (days) 1.769138 
 Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) 17.34 
 Orbital eccentricity 0.004 
 Orbital inclination (degrees) 0.040 
 Escape velocity (km/sec) 2.56 
 Visual geometric albedo 0.61 
 Mean surface temperature -143°C 
 Magnitude (Vo) 5.02 

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