Iocaste
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Iocaste is a small, irregularly shaped outer moon of Jupiter, classified among the planet’s distant, retrograde irregular satellites.
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
moon of Jupiter
ⓘ
natural satellite ⓘ outer moon of Jupiter ⓘ retrograde satellite ⓘ |
| albedo | low ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | Ananke group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToPlanetarySystem | Solar System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| celestialBodyType | small outer irregular moon ⓘ |
| discoveredBy |
Brett J. Gladman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hans Scholl NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean-Marc Petit NERFINISHED ⓘ John J. Kavelaars NERFINISHED ⓘ Matthew J. Holman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveryMethod | ground-based telescope observations ⓘ |
| discoverySite | Mauna Kea Observatories (Hawaii) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| distanceFromSun | approximately 5.2 AU (via Jupiter’s orbit) ⓘ |
| gravitationallyBoundTo | Jupiter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOrbitalMotion | around Jupiter’s barycenter ⓘ |
| hasRotation | likely synchronous or irregular (poorly constrained) ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Jovian system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meanDiameter | approximately 5 km ⓘ |
| memberOf | Jovian irregular satellites ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Iocaste (mythology)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iocaste, a figure in Greek mythology associated with the family of Oedipus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observedBy | ground-based observatories ⓘ |
| orbitalDirection | retrograde ⓘ |
| orbitalEccentricity | approximately 0.287 ⓘ |
| orbitalInclination | approximately 149 degrees ⓘ |
| orbitalPeriod | approximately 631 days ⓘ |
| orbits | Jupiter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| provisionalDesignation | S/2000 J3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| semiMajorAxis | approximately 20,700,000 km ⓘ |
| shape | irregular ⓘ |
| spectralType | dark, likely carbonaceous ⓘ |
| surfaceColor | dark ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
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