S/2002 J1 - Jupiter's 40th moon

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Ortolan
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S/2002 J1 - Jupiter's 40th moon

Post #1by Ortolan » 29.12.2002, 03:11

A new 'moon' has been discovered orbiting Jupiter. I've updated the jupiter-moons.ssc file on my website but here is the section for just 2002 J1:

"S/2002 J1" "Sol/Jupiter"
{
Texture "asteroid.jpg"
Mesh "asteroid.cms"
Radius 1.5

EllipticalOrbit
{
Epoch 2452400.5
Period 715.58
SemiMajorAxis 23064000
Eccentricity 0.2443
Inclination 163.103
MeanAnomaly 126.711
AscendingNode 350.742
ArgOfPericenter 161.640
}

Albedo 0.04
}

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Post #2by billybob884 » 29.12.2002, 18:04

oh boy, another one! :wink:
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Post #3by Darkmiss » 30.12.2002, 22:57

Thank you, It's added, and out there in my virtual Solar system :)
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