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Elara ![]()
C. Perrine discovered Elara, the twelfth satellite of Jupiter in 1905. In Greek mythology, Elara was the mother of Tityus (a giant) and Zeus the father. There is very little information known about Elara.
| PHYSICAL DATA FOR ELARA | |
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| Mass (kg) | 7.77e + 17 |
| Mass (Earth = 1) | 1.3002e - 07 |
| Radius (km) | 38 |
| Radius (Earth = 1) | 5.9580e - 03 |
| Mean Density (g/cm3) | 3.3 |
| Mean Distance from Jupiter (km) | 11,737,000 |
| Magnitude (V0) | 16.77 |
| ORBITAL DATA FOR ELARA | |
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| Rotational period (days) | 0.5 |
| Orbital period (days) | 259.6528 |
| Mean orbital velocity (km/s) | 3.29 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.2072 |
| Orbital inclination (degrees) | 24.77 |
| Escape (km/s) | 0.0522 |
| Albedo | 0.03 |
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