S/2000 J 11

Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Yanga R. Fernández

S/2000 J 11 is one of the smaller moons of the planet Jupiter.

Discovery

S/2000 J 11 was discovered on December 5, 2000 by the astronomer Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Yanga R. Fernández and Eugene A. Magnier. However, the object could then be a long time not been found and was therefore lost. Only in September 2012, the re-discovery of S/2000 J 11 was announced.

Path data

S/2000 J 11 orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 12,174,000 km in 274 days and 10 hours. The track has an eccentricity of 0.21 and is 28.3 ° relative to the local Laplace plane which coincides approximately with the plane of the path of Jupiter, inclined.

Because of its web properties is S/2000 J 11 Himalia the group, named after Jupiter's moon Himalia assigned.

Physical data

S/2000 J11 has a diameter of about 4 km. Its density is estimated to be 2.6 g / cm ³. He is probably made ​​up predominantly of silicate rock. It has a very dark surface with an albedo of 0.04, i.e., only 4% of the incident sunlight is reflected. Their apparent brightness is 22.4 m.

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