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{| cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin:25px 0 0 10px; border:3px solid lightsteelblue;width:250px; font-size:90%; font-family:'Arial','Helvetica'; float: right; clear: right;"Template in Orbiter"
 
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2" align="center" |Himalia
 
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|colspan="2" align="center"|[[Image:Himalia-jupiteriiizip.jpg|240px]]
 
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|colspan="2" align="center"|'''Himalia from jupiter_iii.zip in Orbiter 2002'''
 
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Designation
 
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|Name||align="right"|Himalia
 
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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%"|11461000000 m
 
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|width="30%"|Eccentricity (e)||align="right" width="30%"|0.1623
 
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|width="30%"|Inclination (i)||align="right" width="30%"|27.496° <br> (0.47989573 radian)
 
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|width="30%"|Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊)||align="right" width="30%"|57.24501545° <br> (0.999114 radian)
 
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|width="30%"|Longitude of periapsis (ϖ)||align="right" width="30%"|264.6950422° <br> (4.6198 radian)
 
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|width="30%"|Mean longitude (L)||align="right" width="30%"|198.3522591° <br> (3.4619 radian)
 
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Selected physical parameters
 
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|width="30%"|Mean radius||align="right" width="30%"|12500 m
 
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|width="30%"|Mass||align="right" width="30%"|1.91×10<sup>16</sup> kg
 
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Rotation elements
 
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|width="30%"|SidRotPeriod||align="right" width="30%"|21648384 seconds (250.56 days)
 
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|width="30%"|SidRotOffset||align="right" width="30%"|0.007
 
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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 Himalia.cfg (jupiter_ii.zip)
 
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'''Himalia (Jupiter VI)''' is the is the largest irregular [[Natural satellites|stellite]] and the sixth largest satellite of [[Jupiter]]. It was discovered by [[w:Charles Dillon Perrine|Charles Dillon Perrine]] at the [[w:Lick Observatory|Lick Observatory]] on 3 December 1904. Himalia was named after a nymph in Greek mythology who bore three sons by [[w:Zeus|Zeus]].
 
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== Himalia in Orbiter ==
 
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Himalia 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 Himalia'''</center>
 
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!Add-on!!Source!!Version!!Author!!Type!!Release Date!!Compatibility!!Wiki article
 
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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 ==
 
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[[w:Himalia (moon)|Himalia]] at [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]
 
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== Gallery ==
 
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<gallery>
 
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Himalia-jupiteriiizip.jpg|<center>Himalia from ''jupiter_iii.zip'' in Orbiter 2002</center>
 
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Himalia - New Horizons.png|<center>Himalia showing changes in phase as seen by the [[w:New Horizons|New Horizons]] spacecraft on 6 March 2007 during the slingshot flyby past [[Jupiter]].</center>
 
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Animation of Himalia orbit around Jupiter.gif|<center>Animation of Himalia's orbit over time due to perturbations,<br>from Wikimedia Commons</center>
 
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</gallery>
 
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[[Category:Articles]]
 
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[[Category:Celestial bodies]]
 
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[[Category:Solar System]]
 
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[[Category:Natural satellites]]
 
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[[Category:Satellites of Jupiter]]
 
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{{JupiterSat}}
 
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{{SolarSystem}}
 

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