Key facts
- Discovered by
- Scott S. Sheppard et al.
- Discovery date
- 27 September 2011
- Designation
- Jupiter LVI
- Alternative names
- S/2011 J 2
- Observation arc
- 11 years, 2022-09-02 (last obs)
- Semi major axis
- 23 463 885 km
- Orbital period sidereal
- −730.5 days
- Inclination
- 148.8°
- Satellite of
- Jupiter
- Group
- Pasiphae group
- Mean diameter
- 1 km
- Absolute magnitude h
- 16.94 (28 obs)
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Encyclopedic overview
Jupiter LVI, provisionally known as S/2011 J 2, is a natural satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by Scott Sheppard in 2011. Images of the newly discovered moon were captured using the Magellan-Baade telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. It is an irregular moon with a retrograde orbit. The discovery of Jupiter LVI brought the Jovian satellite count to 67. It is one of the outer retrograde swarm of objects orbiting Jupiter and belongs to the Pasiphae group.
The moon was lost following its discovery in 2011. It was recovered in 2017 and given its permanent designation that year.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “S/2011 J 2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.