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Pasiphaë
The largest of the outer irregular satellites of Jupiter; also known as Jupiter VIII.
| discovery | 1908, by Philibert Jacques Melotte |
| semimajor axis | 23,609,000 km (14,673,000 miles) |
| diameter | 60 km (37 miles) |
| mean density | 2.6 g/cm3 |
| escape velocity | 0.028 km/s |
| orbital period | -741.09 days (retrograde) |
| orbital eccentricity | 0.374 |
| orbital inclination | 141.80° |
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