Leda

Summary

Leda is a moon of Jupiter^[1]. Leda draws 52 Wikipedia views per month (moon_of_jupiter category, ranking #20 of 91).^[2]

Key Facts

• Leda is credited with the discovery of Charles T. Kowal^[3].
• Leda's image is recorded as Leda WISE-W3.jpg^[4].
• Leda's instance of is recorded as moon of Jupiter^[5].
• Leda's instance of is recorded as irregular moon^[6].
• Leda's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Palomar Observatory^[7].
• Leda is named after Leda^[8].
• Leda's Commons category is recorded as Leda (moon)^[9].
• Leda's parent astronomical body is recorded as Jupiter^[10].
• Leda's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1974-09-14T00:00:00Z^[11].
• Leda's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0q5l3^[12].
• Leda's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.16'}^[13].
• Leda's apparent magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+20.2'}^[14].
• Leda's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0036797^[15].
• Leda's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Leda-astronomy^[16].
• Leda's Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID is recorded as 7031640^[17].
• Leda's different from is recorded as 38 Leda^[18].
• Leda's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+28.41392'}^[19].
• Leda's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q2655272', 'amount': '+11'}^[20].
• Leda's temperature is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11579', 'amount': '+124'}^[21].
• Leda's radius is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+10'}^[22].
• Leda's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+242.02'}^[23].
• Leda's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+11098480'}^[24].
• Leda's NAIF ID is recorded as 513^[25].
• Leda's albedo is recorded as {'amount': '+0.040'}^[26].
• Leda's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as leda-1^[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Leda is credited with the discovery of Charles T. Kowal^[3]. Things named for Leda include Leda Ridge^[28], a mountain^[29].

Why It Matters

Leda draws 52 Wikipedia views per month (moon_of_jupiter category, ranking #20 of 91).^[2] Leda has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[30] Leda is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[31]

Entities named for Leda include Leda Ridge^[28], a mountain^[29].