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Megaclite

4/29/2020

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Introduction
Megaclite, also known as Jupiter XIX or S/2000 J 8, is a moon that orbits Jupiter. Megaclite has a mass of 209,813,580,633,607 kilograms,  a volume of 82 kilometers cubed, a radius of 1.6777 miles, a gravity of 0.002 meters per second squared, a density of 2.6 grams per centimeter cubed, a temperature of 124 Kelvin  and a mean diameter of 6 kilometers. Megaclite has an orbital period of 792 Earth Days and an orbital velocity of 7898.80 kilometers per hour.
Profile of Megaclite
Megaclite was discovered in 2000 by American Astronomer Scott Sander Sheppard who was The Leader of a Team of Astronomer at The University of Hawaii. Megaclite belong to the Pasiphae Group, a group of Retrograde Irregular Satellites that follow an orbits at a semi-major axes between 22.8 and 24.1 Million kilometers from Jupiter. Megaclite was named after The Classical World's Megaclite, who was the mother of Thebe and Locrus because of coutius with The King of The gods, Zeus. 
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