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Cyllene / s ə ˈ l iː n iː /, also known as Jupiter XLVIII, is a natural satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii led by Scott S. Sheppard in 2003, receiving the temporary designation S/2003 J 13 .
The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history. Each object is listed in chronological order of its discovery (multiple dates occur when the moments of imaging, observation, and publication differ), identified through its various designations (including temporary and permanent schemes), and the ...
The largest, Ganymede, is the largest moon in the Solar System and surpasses the planet Mercury in size (though not mass). Callisto is only slightly smaller than Mercury in size; the smaller ones, Io and Europa, are about the size of the Moon. The three inner moons — Io, Europa, and Ganymede — are in a 4:2:1 orbital resonance with each other.
In Greek mythology, Cyllene (/ s aɪ ˈ l iː n iː /; Ancient Greek: Κυλλήνη, romanized: Kullḗnē pronounced [kyllɛ̌ːnɛ]), also spelled Kyllene (/ k aɪ ˈ l iː n iː /), is the Naiad [1] or Oread nymph [citation needed] and the personification of Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, the region in Greece where the god of travelers and shepherds Hermes was born and brought up.
Moon landing deniers say there's clear photographic evidence of this, and point out that because there's no breeze on the moon, this must be fake. Apollo 11astronaut Edwin Buzz Aldrin, on the Moon ...
The mini-moon will be small — 33 feet long — and dim. NASA uses magnitude to describe brightness in space. A 6.5 magnitude is generally the dimmest object the human eye can see. The mini-moon ...
Scott Sander Sheppard (born 1977) is an American astronomer and a discoverer of numerous moons, comets and minor planets in the outer Solar System. [1] [2] [3]He is an astronomer in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC.
Mneme / ˈ n iː m iː /, also known as Jupiter XL, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.It was discovered by teams of astronomers led by Brett J. Gladman and Scott S. Sheppard in 2003, and was provisionally designated S/2003 J 21.