Sinope ("sah NOH pee") is the outermost of
Jupiter's known
moons.
It was discovered either by [Seth Barnes Nicholson]
? at [Lick Observatory]
? in
1914 or by P. Melotta at Greenwich
?,
England in July
1914. It is named after a woman said to have been unsuccessfully(!) courted by
Zeus.
- Orbital radius: 23,700,000 km
- diameter: 36 km
- mass: 7.77*1016 kg
- Orbital period: 758 days
- Orbital inclination: 157°
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