S/2003 J 16

Template:Nowrap is a natural satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by a team of astronomers led by Brett J. Gladman in 2003.<ref>IAUC 8116: Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn Template:Webarchive 2003 April (discovery)</ref><ref name="MPEC-2003-G18"/>

Template:Nowrap is about 2 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of Template:Cvt in 600 days, at an inclination of 151° to the ecliptic (149° to Jupiter's equator), in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.333. It belongs to the Ananke group of retrograde irregular moons which orbit Jupiter between 19.3 and 22.7 Gm, at inclinations of roughly 150°.<ref name="SheppardMoons"/>

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Recovery image of S/2003 J 16 on 8 September 2010 (circled)

This moon was once considered lost<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="SheppardMoons">Template:Cite web</ref> until September 2010, when it was recovered by Christian Veillet with Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT).<ref name="Jacobson2012"/><ref name="Brozovic2017"/> However, the recovery observations of S/2003 J 16 were not reported by the Minor Planet Center until 2020, when Ashton et al. independently identified the moon in the same CFHT images taken by Veillet back in September 2010.<ref name="Ashton2020"/> S/2003 J 16 was also identified in observations by Scott Sheppard from March 2017 to May 2018, cumulating a long observation arc of 5,574 days (15 years) since its discovery. The recovery of S/2003 J 16 was formally announced by the Minor Planet Center on 4 November 2020.<ref name="Ashton2020"/><ref name="MPEC-2020-V10"/>