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Pasithee is a small moon that orbits Jupiter, one of many satellites discovered around the giant planet. Like other Jovian moons, it contributes to our understanding of Jupiter's complex system and the formation of planetary satellites in our solar system.
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- Diameter
- 2
- Mass
- 15
- Orbital period
- -711.12
- Image
- Pasithee-discovery-CFHT-annotated.gif
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- surface gravity
- 0.00081
- mean anomaly
- 7198760
- Commons category
- Pasithee (moon)
- time of discovery or invention
- 2001-12-11
- provisional designation
- S/2001 J 6
- albedo
- 0.04
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.3289
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 23004000
- apparent magnitude
- 23.2
- name
- Júpiter XXXVIII
- orbital inclination
- 165.138
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Pasithee /ˈpæsəθiː/, also known as Jupiter XXXVIII, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi led by Scott S. Sheppard in 2001, and given the temporary designation S/2001 J 6.
Pasithee is about 2 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 23,307,000 km in 711.12 days, at an inclination of 166° to the ecliptic (164° to Jupiter's equator), in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.3289.