Elara
Jupiter VII

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.

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 (degrees) | 24.77
Escape velocity (km/sec) | 0.0522
Visual geometric albedo | 0.03
Magnitude (Vo) | 16.77

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