Key facts
- Discovered by
- Scott S. Sheppard et al.
- Discovery site
- Mauna Kea Obs.
- Discovery date
- 6 February 2003
- Observation arc
- 21 years, 2024-12-03 (last obs)
- Semi major axis
- 0.1527889 AU (22,857,000 km)
- Orbital period sidereal
- –1.93 yr (–705.96 d)
- Mean anomaly
- 279.42900 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 30 35.79 / day
- Inclination
- 162.99423° (to ecliptic )
- Longitude of ascending node
- 255.22186°
- Argument of perihelion
- 302.24985°
- Satellite of
- Jupiter
Article
S/2003 J 10 is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi led by Scott S. Sheppard et al. in 2003.
S/2003 J 10 is about 2 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 22,857,000 km in approximately 706 days, at an inclination of 163° to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.34.