| discoverer = [[David C. Jewitt]]<br /> [[G. Edward Danielson]]
| discovered = 8. julij 1979
| mean_orbit_radius = 129.000 [[kilometer|km]]<ref name=Evans2002>{{navedi revijo|lastlast1=Evans|firstfirst1=M.W.|coauthorslast2=Porco,|first2= C.C.;|last3= Hamilton,|first3= D.P.|title=The Orbits of Metis and Adrastea: The Origin and Significance of their Inclinations|journal=Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society |year=2002|volume=34|pages=883|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002DPS....34.2403E}}</ref><ref name=Burns2004>{{citat|surname1=Burns|given1=J.A.|surname2=Simonelli|given2=D.P.|surname3=Showalter|given3=M.R.|surname4=Hamilton|given4=D.P.|surname5=Porco|given5=C.C.|surname6=Esposito|given6=L.W.|surname7=Throop|given7=H.|chapter=Jupiter’s Ring-Moon System| title=Jupiter: The planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|editoreditor1= Bagenal, F.;|editor2= Dowling, T. E.;|editor3= McKinnon, W. B.|url= http://www.astro.umd.edu/~hamilton/research/preprints/BurSimSho03.pdf |language=en}}</ref>