Sinope
Sinope is one of the largest of the outer irregular satellites of Jupiter. It is also known as Jupiter IX. Sinope orbits Jupiter at more than one third of the distance of Mercury from the Sun.
| discovery | 1914, by Seth Nicholson |
| semimajor axis | 24,058,000 km (14,952,000 mi) |
| diameter | 38 km (24 mi) |
| mean density | 2.6 g/cm3 |
| escape velocity | 0.028 |
| orbital period | -762.33 days (retrograde) |
| orbital eccentricity | 0.275 |
| orbital inclination | 153.78° |
