Metis
Jupiter 516 Metis
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Physical data
- Mean radius
- 21.5 km
- GM
- 0.0025 km³/s²
- Density
- 0.9002 g/cm³
Source:NASA JPL Solar System Dynamics · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Semi-major axis
- 128,000 km
- Eccentricity
- 0
- Inclination
- 0°
- Orbital period
- 0.294779 days
- Retrograde
- No
Source:NASA JPL Solar System Dynamics · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Related
Parent body
In everyday life
- About 43 km across — 10.8% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 7.1 hours — more than 3.4 orbits a day.
- About 128,000 km from Jupiter on average — 320 drives along the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.