Himalia (moon)
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| Discovery | |||||||
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| Discovered by | C. D. Perrine | ||||||
| Discovered on | December 3 1904 | ||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||
| Mean radius | km | ||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.112-0.207 | ||||||
| Orbital period | 250.1d | ||||||
| Inclination | 4.5-51.9° | ||||||
| Is a satellite of | Jupiter | ||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||
| Mean diameter | 170 km | ||||||
| Surface area | km2 | ||||||
| Mass | 18 kilogram>kg | ||||||
| Mean density | 2.6 g/cm3 | ||||||
| Surface gravity | m/s2 | ||||||
| Surface Gravity (Earth = 1) | 0.00633 | ||||||
| Rotation period | ~0.4d | ||||||
| Axial tilt | ?° | ||||||
| Albedo | 0.04 | ||||||
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| Atmospheric pressure | kPa | ||||||
Himalia (pronounced "hi MAL iya") is a moon of Jupiter. It was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at the Lick Observatory in 1904 and is named after the nymph Himalia who bore three sons of Zeus.
On December 19, 2000, the Cassini space probe, en route to Saturn, captured a very low resolution image of Himalia, but it was too distant to show any surface details.
Himalia did not receive its present name until 1975; before then, it was simply known as "Jupiter VI".
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