Amalthea

Summary

Amalthea is a moon of Jupiter^[1]. Amalthea ranks in the top 5% of moon_of_jupiter entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (471 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Amalthea is credited with the discovery of Edward Emerson Barnard^[3].
• Amalthea's image is recorded as Amalthea PIA02532.png^[4].
• Amalthea's instance of is recorded as moon of Jupiter^[5].
• Amalthea's instance of is recorded as regular moon^[6].
• Amalthea's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Lick Observatory^[7].
• Amalthea is named after Amalthea^[8].
• Amalthea's GND ID is recorded as 1085655105^[9].
• Amalthea's Commons category is recorded as Amalthea^[10].
• Amalthea's parent astronomical body is recorded as Jupiter^[11].
• Amalthea's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1892-09-09T00:00:00Z^[12].
• Amalthea's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cq6_^[13].
• Amalthea's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Amalthea (moon)^[14].
• Amalthea's spoken text audio is recorded as En-Amalthea (moon)-article.ogg^[15].
• Amalthea's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.00319'}^[16].
• Amalthea's apparent magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+14.1'}^[17].
• Amalthea's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0003318^[18].
• Amalthea's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Amalthea^[19].
• Amalthea's topic has template is recorded as Template:GeoTemplate/amalthea^[20].
• Amalthea's Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID is recorded as 7031629^[21].
• Amalthea's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+0.374'}^[22].
• Amalthea's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14754979', 'amount': '+2.1'}^[23].
• Amalthea's radius is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+83.45'}^[24].
• Amalthea's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+0.49817943'}^[25].
• Amalthea's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+181400'}^[26].
• Amalthea's volume as quantity is recorded as {'unit': 'Q4243638', 'amount': '+2430000'}^[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Amalthea is credited with the discovery of Edward Emerson Barnard^[3].

Why It Matters

Amalthea ranks in the top 5% of moon_of_jupiter entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (471 views/month).^[2] Amalthea has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] Amalthea is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]