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Harpalyke is a small moon that orbits Jupiter, one of many satellites discovered around the gas giant. It was identified as part of Jupiter's extended moon system and contributes to our understanding of the planet's complex gravitational environment and the diverse bodies that surround it.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- irregular moon
- Named after
- Harpalyce
- Parent body
- Jupiter
- Diameter
- 4.4
- Mass
- 120
- Orbital period
- 624.54
- Image
- Harpalyke-Jewitt-CFHT-annotated.gif
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- provisional designation
- S/2000 J 5
- time of discovery or invention
- 2000-11-23
- discoverer or inventor
- Yanga R. Fernández
- albedo
- 0.04
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.226
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 21063832
- apparent magnitude
- 22.2
- orbital inclination
- 147.22372
- periapsis
- 15922340
- apoapsis
- 26205324
- name
- Jupiter XXII
- Commons category
- Harpalyke (moon)
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Encyclopedic overview
Harpalyke /hɑːrˈpæləkiː/, also known as Jupiter XXII, is a little retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.
Discovery and Naming
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Harpalyke” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.