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Himalia (moon)
Himalia
DiscoveryDiscovered by
C. D. PerrineDiscovered on
December 3, 1904 Orbital characteristicsMean radius
11,432,430 km (0.07642 AU)Eccentricity
0.1443 Periapsis
9,782,900 km (0.065 AU) Apoapsis ...
Himalia
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(hmäl´y), in astronomy, one of the 39 known moons, or natural satellites, of Jupiter.
Himalia
The brightest of Jupiter's outer satellites, Himalia, was captured and resolved, for the first time, in a series of narrow angle images taken on December 19, 2000 from a distance of 4.
Himalia is the only moon other than the Galilean moons of Jupiter that is visible in an amateur size telescope. It is much farther from Jupiter than the other moons with an orbit around Jupiter that takes just over 250 days to complete.
Himalia
Himaila is the tenth moon from the surface of Jupiter. It was discovered by Perrine in 1904. Himalia was named after a nymph who bore three sons of Jupiter.
Lysithea ...
Himalia group
A tightly clustered group of moons with orbits around 11,000,000-12,000,000 km from Jupiter.
Carpo ...
Leda, Himalia, Lysithea and Elara may be remnants of a single asteroid that was captured by Jupiter and broken up.
Ananke ...
4. The Himalia group is a tightly clustered group of moons with orbits around 11-12,000,000 km from Jupiter.
5. Carpo is another isolated case; at the inner edge of the Ananke group, it revolves in the direct sense.
Himalia (NASA Thesaurus) A natural satellite of Jupiter, orbiting at a mean distance of 11,480,000 kilometers.
"The Nine Planets: Himalia." .
Io
One of the . Io is covered by at least 10 active sulfur-spewing volcanos, as well as flows, vent craters, and fissures.
in Table 14, the outer eight satellites form two groups: one in which the satellites exhibit retrograde revolution around the planet ( Ananke, Carme, Pasiphae, and Sinope) and the other in which the orbital motion is prograde ( Leda, Himalia, ...
Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Amalthea, Himalia, Elara, Pasiphae, Sinope, Lysithea, Carme, Ananke, Leda, Metis, Adrastea, Thebe, Callirrhoe, Themisto, Kalyke, Iocaste, Erinome, Harpalyke, Isonoe, Praxidike, Megaclite, Taygete, Chaldene, Autonoe, ...
These number five and include Leda, Himalia, Lysithea, and Elara along with the 4km across moon with the name S/2000 J11. These moons orbit between 11,165,000 and 12,656,940 km out, have orbital inclinations between 27.46 and 28.61 degrees.
Still in order after the Galilean Satellites are recently discovered Themisto, Leda, Himalia, Lysithea, and Elara. Then there are four more recently discovered moons, Ananke, and three more moons, of which scientists know little about.
Their names are Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, Thebe, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Sinope, Leda, Himalia, Lysithea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasiphae W1302, W1700, W1704, W1704_2, W1800, W1903_s, W1805, W1902, W1904, W2002_2, and W1700_2. ...
smaller moons are the size of asteroids, and were discovered in the 1900s with more powerful telescopes. Jupiter's moons are (from nearest to furthest from the planet): Metis, Adrastea, Almathea, Thebe, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Leda, Himalia, ...
 See also: Jupiter, Solar, Planet, Solar System, Earth
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