Kale (moon)

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Kale ( also Jupiter XXXVII) is one of the smaller outer moons of Jupiter.

Discovery

Kale was discovered on December 9, 2001 by astronomers at the University of Hawaii. He first received the provisional designation S/2001 J 8

It was named after the moon Kale, one of the Charites of Greek mythology.

Path data

Kale orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 23,217,000 km in 729 days, 11 hours and 17 minutes. The track has an eccentricity of 0.2599. With an inclination of 164.996 ° the web is retrograde, that is, the moon moves against the direction of rotation of Jupiter around the planet.

Due to its web properties Kale is the Carme group, named after Jupiter's moon Carme assigned.

Physical data

Kale has a mean diameter of about 2 km. Their density is estimated to be 2.6 g / cm ³. He is probably made ​​up predominantly of silicate rock. Kale has a very dark surface with an albedo of 0.04, which means that only 4% of the incident sunlight is reflected. Its apparent brightness is 23.0 m.

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