![]() Helike: Fun Fact:"It was named in March 2005 after Helike, one of the nymphs that nurtured Zeus (Jupiter) in his infancy on Crete." Sheppard in 2003 and given the provisional designation S/2003 J 14." ((moon) ) Kore: Fun Fact: "Kore was discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii led by Scott S. The most distant moon of Jupiter now known isS/2003 J2." ((moon) ) Sinope: Fun Fact: "Sinope was the outermost known moon of Jupiter until the discovery of Megaclite in 2000. Himalia: Fun Fact: "Himalia is the largest irregular satellite of Jupiter, the sixth largest overall in size, and only the four Galilean moons of Jupiter have greater mass." ((moon) ) Kowal at the Mount Palomar Observatory on September 14, 1974, after three nights' worth of photographic plates had been taken (September 11 through 13 Leda appears on all of them)." ((moon) )Īdrastea: Fun Fact: "Adrastea was discovered in Voyager 2 probe photographs taken in 1979, making it the first natural satellite to be discovered from images taken by an interplanetary spacecraft, rather than through telescopic photography." ((moon) ) Leda: Fun Fact: "Leda is a prograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Mount Wilson Observatory in 1951 and is named after the mythological Ananke, the personification of Necessity, and the mother of the Moirai by Zeus." (moon) ) ![]() Synnott in images from the Voyager 1 space probe taken on March 5, 1979, while making its flyby of Jupiter." ((moon) )Īnanke: Fun Fact: "Ananke is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. Thebe: Fun Fact: "Thebe also known as Jupiter XIV, is the fourth of Jupiter's moons by distance from the planet. It was discovered in 1979 in images taken by Voyager 1, and was named in 1983 after the first wife of Zeus, Metis." ((moon) )Įlara: Fun Fact: "It is the eighth largest moon of Jupiter and is named after Elara, one of Zeus's lovers and the mother of the giant Tityos. Elara belongs to the Himalia group, five moons orbiting between 11 and 13 Gm from Jupiter at an inclination of about 27.5°." ((moon) ) Metis: Fun Fact: "Metis also known as Jupiter XVI, is the innermost moon of Jupiter. It was discovered on September 9, 1892, by Edward Emerson Barnard and named after Amalthea, a nymph in Greek mythology" ((moon) ) It is the third-largest moon in the Solar System and the second largest in the Jovian system, after Ganymede" ((moon) )Īmalthea: Fun Fact: "Amalthea is the third moon of Jupiter in order of distance from the planet. ![]() It was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galileo. It is the seventh moon and third Galilean satellite outward from Jupiter." ((moon) )Ĭallisto: Fun Fact: "Callisto pron. is a satellite of Jupiter and the largest moon in the Solar System. is the innermost of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter and, with a diameter of 3,642 kilometres, the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System." ((moon) ) ![]()
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