S/2016 J 4 | |
Discoverer: | Scott S. Sheppard |
Discovery Site: | Las Campanas Obs. |
Discovered: | 9 March 2016 |
Epoch: | 25 February 2023 (JD 2460000.5) |
Observation Arc: | 6.78 yr (2,475 d) |
Earliest Precovery Date: | 5 February 2016 |
Eccentricity: | 0.1986458 |
Period: | –2.04 yr (–743.69 days) |
Mean Anomaly: | 138.36439° |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Inclination: | 146.25507° |
Asc Node: | 309.09022° |
Arg Peri: | 302.78410° |
Satellite Of: | Jupiter |
Group: | Pasiphae group |
Mean Diameter: | ≈ |
Magnitude: | 24.0 |
Abs Magnitude: | 17.3 |
S/2016 J 4 is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard on 9 March 2016, using the 6.5-meter Magellan-Baade Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. It was announced by the Minor Planet Center on 24 January 2023, after observations were collected over a long enough time span to confirm the satellite's orbit.
S/2016 J 4 is part of the Pasiphae group, a dispersed cluster of distant retrograde irregular moons of Jupiter that follow similar orbits to Pasiphae at semi-major axes between NaNe6km, orbital eccentricities between 0.2–0.6, and inclinations between 140–160°. It has a diameter of about for an absolute magnitude of 17.3, making it one of Jupiter's smallest known moons.