Moon
The innermost known moon of Jupiter, orbiting faster than the planet rotates and feeding dust into Jupiter's main ring.
| Type | Moon |
|---|---|
| Orbits | Jupiter |
| Distance from parent body | 128,000 km |
| Diameter | 43 km |
| Mass | 3.60 × 10^16 kg |
| Surface gravity | 5.20e-3 m/s² |
| Temperature | -150°C |
| Orbital period | 0 days |
| Apparent magnitude | 17.5 |
| Redshift | 0 |
At 43 km across, Metis is 1.2 percent of the diameter of Earth's Moon.
Its mass is less than a thousandth of the mass of Earth.
It orbits Jupiter at 128,000 km, closer in than the Moon orbits Earth.
A single orbit takes 7.1 hours.
An average temperature of 123 K works out at -150 degrees Celsius, colder than the 15 degrees Earth averages.
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