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Thebe , in astronomy, one of the 39 known moons, or natural satellites, of Jupiter .

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Thebe (Jupiter XIV) The fourth of the known jovian satellites, discovered in 1979, Thebe has a diameter of 100 km (±20km) (100 × 90 km); mass 7.77 × 10¹⁷kg; mean distance from Jupiter 222 000 km.

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Thebe The fourth-closest satellite of Jupiter, distance 221 900 km, orbital period 0.675 days; also known as Jupiter XIV. Its axial rotation period is the same as its orbital period. Thebe's size is 116 × 98 × 84 km. It was discovered in 1979 on images from Voyager 1.

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