Elara

Jupiter VII

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Elara [EE-lar-uh] is the twelfth known satellite of Jupiter. Elara and Zeus were the parents of Tityus the giant. Very little is known about Elara.

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Elara Statistics

Discovered by .................................... C. Perrine
Date of discovery ...................................... 1905

Mass (kg) .......................................... 7.77e+17
Mass (Earth = 1) ................................. 1.3002e-07
Equatorial radius (km) ................................... 38
Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) .................... 5.9580e-03
Mean density (gm/cm^3) .................................. 3.3

Mean distance from Jupiter (km) .................. 11,737,000
Rotational period (days) ................................ 0.5
Orbital period (days) .............................. 259.6528
Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) ......................... 3.29

Orbital eccentricity ................................. 0.2072
Orbital inclination ................................... 24.77°

Escape velocity (km/sec) ............................. 0.0522

Visual geometric albedo ................................ 0.03
Magnitude (Vo) ........................................ 16.77

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Author: Calvin J. Hamilton.