Editing Himalia

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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2" align="center" |Himalia
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|colspan="2" align="center"|[[Image:Himalia-outerplanets060929basezip-Orbiter2006P1.jpg|240px]]
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|colspan="2" align="center"|'''Himalia from ''outer_planets-060929-base.zip'' in Orbiter 2006P1'''
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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%"|2006.64779710751
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|width="30%"|Semimajor axis (a)||align="right" width="50%"|11394679431.4089 m
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|width="30%"|Eccentricity (e)||align="right" width="30%"|0.148020288964713
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|width="30%"|Inclination (i)||align="right" width="30%"|30.4865631823591° <br> (0.532090905149446 radian)
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|width="30%"|Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊)||align="right" width="30%"|57.7865255776614° <br> (1.00856513461811 radian)
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|width="30%"|Longitude of periapsis (ϖ)||align="right" width="30%"|405.592890277337° <br> (7.07893135801963 radian)
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|width="30%"|Mean longitude (L)||align="right" width="30%"|711.997576610844° <br> (12.4267019780798 radian)
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Selected physical parameters
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|width="30%"|Mean radius||align="right" width="30%"|93150 m
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|width="30%"|Mass||align="right" width="30%"|9.56×10<sup>18</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 (outer_planets-060929-base.zip)
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'''Himalia (Jupiter VI)''' is the is the largest irregular [[Natural satellites|satellite]] 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]].

== Himalia in Orbiter ==
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=outer_planets-060929-base.zip&Author=&CatID=root The Outer Planets 060929 Base]||AVSIM||||Rolf Keibel<br>Carl Romanik<br>Tony Dunn||Scenery||30 September 2006||Orbiter 2006-P1||

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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:Himalia (moon)|Himalia]] at [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths="100" heights="100">
Himalia-jupiteriiizip.jpg|<center>Himalia from ''jupiter_iii.zip'' in Orbiter 2002</center>
Himalia-outerplanets050125zip-Orbiter2005P1.jpg|<center>Himalia from ''outerplanets-050125zip-Orbiter2005P1</center>
Himalia-outerplanets060929basezip-Orbiter2006P1.jpg|<center>Himalia from ''outer_planets-060929-base.zip'' in Orbiter 2006P1</center>
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>
Animation of Himalia orbit around Jupiter.gif|<center>Animation of Himalia's orbit over time due to perturbations,<br>from Wikimedia Commons</center>
</gallery>

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