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Key facts
- Discovered by
- Brett J. Gladman
- Discovery date
- 4 April 2003
- Alternative names
- S/2003 J 18
- Observation arc
- 19 years, 2022-09-02 (last obs)
- Semi major axis
- 20 274 000 km
- Orbital period sidereal
- −604.99 d
- Mean anomaly
- 220.7°
- Inclination
- 143.5° (to ecliptic )
- Longitude of ascending node
- 215.5°
- Argument of perihelion
- 98.15°
- Satellite of
- Jupiter
- Group
- Ananke group
- Mean diameter
- 2 km
- Absolute magnitude h
- 16.44 (52 obs)
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Wikidata facts
- Parent body
- Jupiter
- Diameter
- 2
- Mass
- 15
- Orbital period
- -588
- Image
- 2003 J 18 CFHT recovery annotated.gif
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- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 20682998
- time of discovery or invention
- 2003-02-06
- provisional designation
- S/2003 J 18
- discoverer or inventor
- Brett J. Gladman
- albedo
- 0.04
- apparent magnitude
- 23.4
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.105
- orbital inclination
- 146.4
- longitude of ascending node
- 215.5
- argument of periapsis
- 98.15
- mean anomaly
- 220.7
- Commons category
- Jupiter LV
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Encyclopedic overview
Jupiter LV, provisionally known as S/2003 J 18, is a natural satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by a team of astronomers led by Brett J. Gladman in 2003.
Jupiter LV is about 2 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 20.220 million km in 604.99 days, at an inclination of 143° to the ecliptic (145° to Jupiter's equator), in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.0509.
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