Pasiphae
Jupiter VIII

Pasiphae [pah-SIF-ah-ee] is the fifteenth known satellite of Jupiter. Very little is known about Pasiphae.

Pasiphae Statistics
Discovered by | P. Melotte
Date of discovery | 1908
Mass (kg) | 1.91e+17
Mass (Earth = 1) | 3.1961e-08
Equatorial radius (km) | 25
Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) | 3.9197e-03
Mean density (gm/cm^3) | 2.9
Mean distance from Jupiter (km) | 23,500,000
Rotational period (days) | ?
Orbital period (days) | -735
Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) | -2.32
Orbital eccentricity | 0.378
Orbital inclination (degrees) | 147
Escape velocity (km/sec) | 0.0319
Visual geometric albedo | ?
Magnitude (Vo) | 17.03

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