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Ganymede comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	is an instance of	has radiu	has orbital period	has synonym	has mass	has definition	has eccentricity
Galilean satellite	natural satellite						The largest satellites of Jupiter - Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. All are locked in synchronous rotation with Jupiter.
Ganymede		Galilean satellite	2635 km	7.155 days	Jupiter III	1.65 × 1026 g	The largest satellite of Jupiter.	e = 0.0015

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