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Ananke

Jupiter XII

Proper NameAnanke
DesignationJupiter XII
Primary PlanetJupiter
Family / ClassAnanke group
Orbital Period1 year, 265 days (retrograde)
Distance from JupiterSemi-Major Axis: 21,035,000 km (0.14 AU)
Periapsis: 16,049,000 km (0.11 AU)
Apoapsis: 26,020,000 km (0.17 AU)
Eccentricity0.2370
Rotation Period8 hours, 19 minutes
Mean Diameter29.1 km
18.1 miles

One of Jupiter's more distant moons, Ananke orbits its parent planet at a distance of more than twenty-one million kilometres. It is a small body, with a mean diameter of only about thirty kilometres.

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