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Proper Name	Arche
Designation	Jupiter XLIII
Primary Planet	Jupiter
Family / Class	Carme Group
Orbital Period	2 years, 1 day
Distance from Jupiter	Semi-Major Axis: 23,098,000 km (0.15 AU) Periapsis: 17,069,000 km (0.11 AU) Apoapsis: 29,126,000 km (0.19 AU)
Eccentricity	0.261
Rotation Period	Not known
Diameter (mean)	3 km 1.9 miles
Notes	One of the many small moons that make up Jupiter's Carme group of satellites, Arche has an irregular retrograde orbit, and probably represents part of the debris from the event that saw the moon Carme captured by Jupiter's gravity.

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