Harpalyke (moon)
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Harpalyke Template:IPAc-en, also known as Template:Nowrap, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii led by Scott S. Sheppard in 2000, and given the temporary designation Template:Nowrap.<ref>IAUC 7555: Satellites of Jupiter 5 January 2001 (discovery)</ref><ref name="MPEC-2001-A28">MPEC 2001-A28: S/2000 J 2, S/2000 J 3, S/2000 J 4, S/2000 J 5, S/2000 J 6 January 5, 2001 (discovery and ephemeris)</ref> In August 2003, the moon was named<ref>IAUC 7998: Satellites of Jupiter 22 October 2002 (naming the moon)</ref> after Harpalyce, the incestuous daughter of Clymenus, who in some accounts was also a lover of Zeus (Jupiter).
Harpalyke belongs to the Ananke group, believed to be the remnants of a break-up of a captured heliocentric asteroid.<ref name="SheppardJewitt2003">Sheppard, S. S.; and Jewitt, D. C.; An Abundant Population of Small Irregular Satellites Around Jupiter, Nature, Vol. 423 (May 2003), pp. 261-263</ref><ref name="Nesvorny2003">Nesvorný, D.; Alvarellos, J. L. A.; Dones, L.; and Levison, H. F.; Orbital and Collisional Evolution of the Irregular Satellites Template:Webarchive, The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 126 (2003), pp. 398–429</ref> It is about 4 kilometres in diameter<ref name="SheppardJewittPorco2004">Sheppard, S. S.; Jewitt, D. C.; and Porco, C. C.; Jupiter's Outer Satellites and Trojans, in Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere, edited by Fran Bagenal, Timothy E. Dowling, and William B. McKinnon, Cambridge Planetary Science, Vol. 1, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, Template:ISBN, 2004, pp. 263-280</ref> and appears grey (color index R-V=0.43), similar to C-type asteroids.<ref name="Grav2003">Grav, T.; Holman, M. J.; Gladman, B. J.; and Aksnes, K.; Photometric Survey of the Irregular Satellites, Icarus, Vol. 166 (2003), pp. 33-45</ref> The satellite orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 21,064,000 km in 634.19 days, at an inclination of 147° to the ecliptic (147° to Jupiter's equator) with an eccentricity of 0.2441.
References
- Ephemeris IAU-MPC NSES
- Mean orbital parameters NASA JPL