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Thebe

[Image of Jupiter's Inner Moons]

Mean Radius:
50 km

Mass:
7.77x1018 kg

Orbital Period:
.675 Earth days

Rotation Period:
.675 Earth days

Orbit:
222,000 km from Jupiter

Thebe one of the four inner moons of Jupiter. The other inner moons are Amalthea, Adastra, and Metis. The image to the left shows the moons to scale with each other, from top to bottom they are Metis, Adastra, Amalthea, and Thebe.

Web Pages with Information about Thebe

Astrogeology Research Program

Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Information about and access to the official International Astromical Union approved names for planetary features
Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements of the Planets and Satellites - IAU Working Group: IAU CCRE Working Group, information, publications, and references, including tables of the accepted values for the size, shape, and rotations of the planets and satellites
NASA Planetary Photojournal: Images from various Solar System exploration programs

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