Thebe

Jupiter XIV - 1979J2

Thebe Statistics
 Discovered by Stephen Synnott 
 Date of discovery 1979 
 Mass (kg) 7.77e+17 
 Mass (Earth = 1) 1.3002e-07 
 Radius (km) 55x45 
 Radius (Earth = 1) 8.6234e-03 
 Mean density (gm/cm^3) 1.5 
 Mean distance from Jupiter (km) 221,895 
 Rotational period (days) 0.674536 
 Orbital period (days) 0.674536 
 Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) 23.93 
 Orbital eccentricity 0.0183 
 Orbital inclination (degrees) 1.0659 
 Escape velocity (km/sec) 0.0434 
 Visual geometric albedo 0.05 
 Magnitude (Vo) 15.7 

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