Jupiter LI, provisionally known as , is a

natural satellite A natural satellite is, in the most common usage, an astronomical body that orbits a planet, dwarf planet, or small Solar System body (or sometimes another natural satellite). Natural satellites are colloquially referred to as moons, a deriv ...

Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a Jupiter mass, mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined a ...

. It was discovered by R. Jacobson, M. Brozović, B. Gladman, and M. Alexandersen in 2010. IAUC 9222
/ref> It received its permanent number in March 2015. CBET 4075: 20150307 : SATELLITES OF JUPITER, 7 March 2015. It is now known to circle Jupiter at an average distance of 23.45 million km, taking 2.02 years to complete an orbit around Jupiter. Jupiter LI is about 3 km wide. It is a member of the

Carme group The Carme group is a group of retrograde irregular satellites of Jupiter that follow similar orbits to Carme and are thought to have a common origin. Their semi-major axes (distances from Jupiter) range between 22.7 and 23.6 Gm, their orbital ...

This body was discovered from the 200-inch (508 cm) aperture

Hale telescope The Hale Telescope is a , 3.3 reflecting telescope at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, US, named after astronomer George Ellery Hale. With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1928, he orchestrated the planning, de ...

in California. (there is also a 60-inch aperture Hale telescope)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jupiter 51 Moons of Jupiter Irregular satellites 20100907 Carme group Moons with a retrograde orbit Discoveries by Brett J. Gladman