Image:TheIrregulars JUPITER Himalia.svg

[edit] Summary

Jupiter's irregular satellites - Himalia group. Plotted by a program written by Eurocommuter.

• The position of a satellite (in polar co-ordinates) represents
  • its orbit's mean semi-major axis a in Gm
  • orbit’s mean inclination i in degrees
• The size of the circle illustrates the satellite's size relative to others (assumed albedo 0.04)

[edit] See also

• Zoom on Pasiphae group
• all Jupiter's groups

[edit] Data source

• Mean Orbital Elements JPL (Aug 2006).
• Size estimations: Sheppard Sheppard pages (Aug 2006)

[edit] Licensing

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