Editing Elara

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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2" align="center" |Elara
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|colspan="2" align="center"|[[Image:Elara-jupiteriiizip.jpg|240px]]
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|colspan="2" align="center"|'''Elara from jupiter_iii.zip in Orbiter 2002'''
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Designation
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|Name||align="right"|Elara
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|width="30%"|Reference body||align="right" width="30%"|[[Jupiter]]
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Planetary mean orbits
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|width="30%"|Epoch||align="right" width="50%"|1976.606435
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|width="30%"|Semimajor axis (a)||align="right" width="50%"|11740000000 m
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|width="30%"|Eccentricity (e)||align="right" width="30%"|0.2174
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|width="30%"|Inclination (i)||align="right" width="30%"|26.627° <br> (0.46472882 radian)
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|width="30%"|Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊)||align="right" width="30%"|109.3730594° <br> (1.90892 radian)
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|width="30%"|Longitude of periapsis (ϖ)||align="right" width="30%"|261.222918° <br> (4.5592 radian)
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|width="30%"|Mean longitude (L)||align="right" width="30%"|195.5963321° <br> (3.4138 radian)
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Selected physical parameters
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|width="30%"|Mean radius||align="right" width="30%"|38500 m
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|width="30%"|Mass||align="right" width="30%"|7.77×10<sup>17</sup> kg
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Rotation elements
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|width="30%"|SidRotPeriod||align="right" width="30%"|2243896 seconds (25.97 days)
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|width="30%"|SidRotOffset||align="right" width="30%"|0.03
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|width="30%"|Obliqutiy||align="right" width="30%"|0
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|width="30%"|LAN||align="right" width="30%"|0
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|width="30%"|Note||align="right" width="30%"|*Elements given are from Elara.cfg (jupiter_ii.zip)
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'''Elara (Jupiter VII)''' is an irregular prograde and outer [[Natural satellites|moon]] and of [[Jupiter]]. It was discovered on 5 January 1905, the day after the discovery of [[Himalia]], by [[w:Charles Dillon Perrine|Charles Dillon Perrine]] at the [[w:Lick Observatory|Lick Observatory]], but it was not named until 1975, then named after [[w:Elara (mythology)|Elara]] one of the lovers of [[w:Zeus|Zeus]].

== Elara in Orbiter ==
Elara was introduced to Orbiter with the release of ''jupiter-iii.zip'' in October 2002.
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|colspan="8"|<center>'''Orbiter versions and add-ons which include Elara'''</center>
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!Add-on!!Source!!Version!!Author!!Type!!Release Date!!Compatibility!!Wiki article
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|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/2005-with-p1-patch-files.5432/ 2005 (with P1 patch files)]||O-F Resources||050216||martins||Orbiter Download||16 February 2005||Orbiter 2005||
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|[https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=&Name=&FileName=jupiter_iii.zip&Author=&CatID=root Jupiter III]||AVSIM||||Rolf Keibel||Scenery||28 October 2002||||
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== See also == 
[[w:Elara (moon)|Himalia]] at [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths="200" heights="200">
Elara-jupiteriiizip.jpg|<center>Elara from ''jupiter_iii.zip'' in Orbiter 2002</center>
Elara-outerplanets050125zip-Orbiter2005P1.jpg|<center>Elara from ''outerplanets-050125.zip'' in Orbiter 2005P1</center>
Elara - New Horizons.png|<center>Elara as seen by [[w:New Horizons|New Horizons]] on 5 March 2007 during its alingshot flyby of [[Jupiter]] inroute to [[Pluto]] and beyond.</center>
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