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With a diameter of about 5,270 kilometres (3,270 mi) and a mass of 1.48 × 10 20 tonnes (1.48 × 10 23 kg; 3.26 × 10 23 lb), Ganymede is the largest and most massive moon in the Solar System. [45] It is slightly more massive than the second most massive moon, Saturn's satellite Titan , and is more than twice as massive as the Earth's Moon.
It was discovered by German astronomer Walter Baade at the Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg on 23 October 1924, and named after Ganymede from Greek mythology. [1] [2] With a diameter of approximately 35 kilometers (22 miles), Ganymed is the largest of all near-Earth objects but does not cross Earth's orbit.
Billions of years ago, a massive asteroid struck Ganymede, the largest moon orbiting Jupiter, shifting it on its axis, new research suggests. ... The resulting crater would have been 870 miles to ...
Ganymede (Jupiter III), the third Galilean moon, is named after the mythological Ganymede, cupbearer of the Greek gods and Zeus's beloved. [41] Ganymede is the largest natural satellite in the Solar System at 5262.4 kilometers in diameter, which makes it larger than the planet Mercury – although only at about half of its mass [ 42 ] since ...
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Epigeus is the largest known impact crater on Jupiter's Galilean satellite Ganymede, with a diameter of 343 km. It is 6.5% the mean equatorial diameter of Ganymede, 5,270 km (3,270 mi). It is 6.5% the mean equatorial diameter of Ganymede, 5,270 km (3,270 mi).
This list contains a selection of objects 50 and 99 km in radius (100 km to 199 km in average diameter). The listed objects currently include most objects in the asteroid belt and moons of the giant planets in this size range, but many newly discovered objects in the outer Solar System are missing, such as those included in the following ...