Key facts
- Discovered by
- Brett J. Gladman
- Discovery date
- April 2003
- Designation
- Jupiter LXI
- Alternative names
- S/2003 J 19
- Observation arc
- 21 years, 2024-12-03 (last obs)
- Semi major axis
- 22 757 000 km
- Orbital period sidereal
- −697.6 days
- Mean anomaly
- 205.7°
- Inclination
- 166.7°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 105.7°
- Argument of perihelion
- 284.1°
- Satellite of
- Jupiter
- Group
- Carme group
- Mean diameter
- 2 km
- Absolute magnitude h
- 16.60 (32 obs)
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Wikidata facts
- Parent body
- Jupiter
- Diameter
- 2
- Mass
- 15
- Orbital period
- 700.83
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- discoverer or inventor
- Brett J. Gladman
- longitude of ascending node
- 105.7
- argument of periapsis
- 284.1
- mean anomaly
- 205.7
- time of discovery or invention
- 2003-02-06
- provisional designation
- S/2003 J 19
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 22745922
- periapsis
- 15157496
- apoapsis
- 30334348
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.3336170
- orbital inclination
- 162.90141
- albedo
- 0.04
- apparent magnitude
- 23.7
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Encyclopedic overview
Jupiter LXI, provisionally known as S/2003 J 19, is a natural satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by a team of astronomers led by Brett J. Gladman, et al. in 2003.
S/2003 J 19 is about 2 kilometers in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 22,709 Mm in 699.125 days, at an inclination of 165° to the ecliptic (164° to Jupiter's equator), in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.1961.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “S/2003 J 19” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.