Amalthea
Jupiter 505 Amalthea
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Physical data
- Mean radius
- 83.5 km
- GM
- 0.16456 km³/s²
- Density
- 1.0111 g/cm³
Source:NASA JPL Solar System Dynamics · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Semi-major axis
- 181,400 km
- Eccentricity
- 0.003
- Inclination
- 0.4°
- Orbital period
- 0.499918 days
- Retrograde
- No
Source:NASA JPL Solar System Dynamics · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Related
Parent body
In everyday life
- About 167 km across — 41.8% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 12 hours — more than 2 orbits a day.
- About 181,400 km from Jupiter on average — 454 drives along the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.