Euporie (moon)

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Euporie ( Jupiter XXXIV) is one of the smallest known outer moons of Jupiter.

Discovery

Euporie was discovered on 11 December 2001 by astronomers at the University of Hawaii. It was initially provisional designation S/2001 J 10

Path data

Euporie orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 19,304,000 km in 550.74 days. The track has an eccentricity of 0.1432. With an inclination of 145.8 ° to the local Laplace plane the web is retrograde, that is, the moon moves against the direction of rotation of Jupiter around the planet.

Because of their web properties is Euporie the Ananke group, named after Jupiter's moon Ananke assigned. It is the innermost member of this group.

Physical data

Euporie has an average diameter of about 2 km. Their density is estimated to be 2.6 g / cm ³. It is probably made ​​up predominantly of silicate rock. Euporie has a very dark surface with an albedo of 0.04, which means that only 4% of the incident sunlight is reflected. Its apparent magnitude is 23.1 m.

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