Lysithea
On July 6th 1939 the American astronomer Seth
Nicholson discovered a small moon orbiting Jupiter. The moon was named Lysithea
after the daughter of Oceanus and a lover of Zeus.
The moon is only 36
km across and orbits Jupiter at an
average distance of 11.7 million km (7.03 million mi), completing one orbit in
about 259 Earth days.
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