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Carme (moon)

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Carme ("KAR mee") is one of Jupiter's moons. It was discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Mount Wilson, California in July 1938. It is named for the mother by Zeus of Britomartis, a Cretan goddess. Carme has a retrograde orbit.

  • Orbital radius: 22,600,000 km
  • diameter: 40 km
  • mass: 9.56×1016 kg
  • Orbital period: 692 days
  • Orbital inclination: 163°


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