Editing Metis

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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2" align="center" |Metis
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|colspan="2" align="center"|[[Image:Metis-outerplanets060929basezip-Orbiter2006P1.jpg|240px]]
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|colspan="2" align="center"|'''Metis 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"|Metis
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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%"|128928293.269964 m
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|width="30%"|Eccentricity (e)||align="right" width="30%"|0.00658360448375574
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|width="30%"|Inclination (i)||align="right" width="30%"|2.23244447987446° <br> (0.0389635065417817 radian)
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|width="30%"|Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊)||align="right" width="30%"|338.07711837232° <br> (5.90055884125159 radian)
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|width="30%"|Longitude of periapsis (ϖ)||align="right" width="30%"|539.620988765198° <br> (9.41816296682003 radian)
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|width="30%"|Mean longitude (L)||align="right" width="30%"|541.935017400972° <br> (9.45855038549973 radian)
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Selected physical parameters
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|width="30%"|Mean radius||align="right" width="30%"|19500 m
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|width="30%"|Mass||align="right" width="30%"|9.56×10<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%"|25488 seconds (7.08 hours)
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|width="30%"|SidRotOffset||align="right" width="30%"|0
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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 Metis.cfg (outer_planets-060929-base.zip)
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'''Metis (Jupiter XVI, S/1979 J 3)''' is the innermost known [[Natural satellites|moon]] of Jupiter, discovered by [[w:Stephen P. Synnott|Stephen P Synnott]] from images by [[w:Voyager 1|Voyager 1]] in 1979. It was named after [[w:Metis (mythology)|Metis]] the first wife of [[w:Zeus|Zeus]] in Greek mythology.

== Metis in Orbiter ==
Metis was first introduced to [[Orbiter]] with the release of ''jupiter_ii.zip'' in October 2002.

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|colspan="8"|<center>'''Orbiter versions and add-ons which include Metis'''</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/minor-moons-jupiter-saturn.2811/ Minor moons Jupiter Saturn]||O-F Resources||2014-07-12||T1234||Scenery||12 July 2014||||
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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://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=&Name=&FileName=outerplanets-050329_update.zip&Author=&CatID=root The Outer Planets 050329 Update]||AVSIM||050329||Rolf Keibel<br>Tony Dunn<br>Carl Romanik||Scenery||30 March 2005||||
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|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/the-outer-planets-050223-update.2483/ The Outer Planets 050223 Update]||O-F Resources||2005-02-23||VF2_Rolf||Scenery||23 February 2005||||
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|[https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=&Name=&FileName=outerplanets-050125.zip&Author=&CatID=root The Outer Planets 050125]||AVSIM||050125||Rolf Keibel<br>Tony Dunn||Scenery||26 January 2005||Orbiter 2005-P1||
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|[https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=&Name=&FileName=jupiter_ii.zip&Author=&CatID=root Jupiter II]||AVSIM||||Rolf Keibel||Scenery||26 October 2002||||
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== See also ==
[[w:Metis (moon)|Metis]] at [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths="100" heights="100">
Metis-jupiteriizip.jpg|<center>Metis from ''jupiter_ii.zip'' in Orbiter 2002</center>
Metis-outerplanets050125zip-Orbiter2005P1.jpg|<center>Metis from ''outerplanets-050125.zip'' in Orbiter 2005P1</center>
Metis-outerplanets060929basezip-Orbiter2006P1.jpg|<center>Metis from ''outer_planets-060929-base.zip'' in Orbiter 2006P1</center>
Metis ontdekking.gif|<center>Discovery image by [[w:Voyager 1|Voyager 1]] on 4 March 1979,<br>from Wikimedia Commons</center>
Metis.jpg|<center>Metis as seen by the [[w:Galileo (spacecraft)|Galileo]] spacecraft<br>from Wikimedia Commons</center>
</gallery>

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