Carme
Jupiter XI

Carme [KAR-mee] is the fourteenth known satellite of Jupiter. Carme and Zeus were the parents of Britomartis, a Cretan goddess. Very little is known about Carme.

Carme Statistics
Discovered by | S. Nicholson
Date of discovery | 1938
Mass (kg) | 9.56e+16
Mass (Earth = 1) | 1.5997e-08
Equatorial radius (km) | 20
Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) | 3.1358e-03
Mean density (gm/cm^3) | 2.8
Mean distance from Jupiter (km) | 22,600,000
Rotational period (days) | ?
Orbital period (days) | -692
Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) | -2.37
Orbital eccentricity | 0.2068
Orbital inclination (degrees) | 163
Escape velocity (km/sec) | 0.0253
Visual geometric albedo | ?
Magnitude (Vo) | 18.0

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