Key facts
- Discovered by
- Scott S. Sheppard
- Discovery date
- 27 September 2011
- Designation
- Jupiter LXXII
- Alternative names
- S/2011 J 1
- Observation arc
- 13 years, 2024-12-02 (last obs)
- Semi major axis
- 22 462 000 km
- Orbital period sidereal
- −686.6 days
- Mean anomaly
- 249.8°
- Inclination
- 163.3°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 323.9°
- Argument of perihelion
- 127.2°
- Satellite of
- Jupiter
- Group
- Carme group
- Mean diameter
- 2 km
- Absolute magnitude h
- 16.82 (33 obs)
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Wikidata facts
- Parent body
- Jupiter
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- discoverer or inventor
- Scott S. Sheppard
- time of discovery or invention
- 2011-09-27
- provisional designation
- S/2011 J 1
- orbital inclination
- 162.83
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.2328
- apparent magnitude
- 23.7
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 20155000
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Encyclopedic overview
Jupiter LXXII, originally known as S/2011 J 1, is a natural satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by Scott Sheppard in 2011. It belongs to the Carme group.
This moon was lost after its discovery in 2011. Its recovery was announced on 17 September 2018.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “S/2011 J 1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.