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AI overview
Praxidike is a small moon that orbits Jupiter, one of many natural satellites discovered around the giant planet. It was identified as part of ongoing astronomical surveys and contributes to scientists' understanding of Jupiter's complex system of moons.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- irregular moon
- Named after
- Praxidice
- Parent body
- Jupiter
- Diameter
- 6.8
- Mass
- 430
- Orbital period
- 613.9
- Image
- Praxidike-Jewitt-CFHT-annotated.gif
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- Commons category
- Praxidike (moon)
- discoverer or inventor
- Yanga R. Fernández
- provisional designation
- S/2000 J 7
- albedo
- 0.029
- time of discovery or invention
- 2000-11-23
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.1840
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 20823967
- apparent magnitude
- 21.2
- orbital inclination
- 144.20594
- periapsis
- 16992165
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Encyclopedic overview
Praxidike /prækˈsɪdəkiː/, also known as Jupiter XXVII, is a small retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.
Discovery and Naming
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Praxidike” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.