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Iocaste is a small moon of Jupiter discovered in 2000. It is one of many known moons orbiting Jupiter and contributes to our understanding of the Jovian system.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- irregular moon
- Named after
- Jocasta
- Parent body
- Jupiter
- Diameter
- 5.2
- Mass
- 190
- Orbital period
- 609.43
- Image
- Iocaste-Jewitt-CFHT-annotated.gif
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- time of discovery or invention
- 2000-11-23
- discoverer or inventor
- Yanga R. Fernández
- provisional designation
- S/2000 J 3
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.2874
- albedo
- 0.04
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 20722584
- apparent magnitude
- 21.8
- surface gravity
- 0.00081
- orbital inclination
- 147.24851
- periapsis
- 14766781
- apoapsis
- 2667838
- different from
- Jocasta
- Commons category
- Iocaste (moon)
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Encyclopedic overview
Iocaste, also known as Jupiter XXIV, is a little retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.
Discovery and Naming
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Iocaste” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.