Thebe
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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