Ananke
A small irregular shaped moon of Jupiter discovered on
Wednesday 28th 1951 by Seth Nicholson at Mount Wilson observatory in
America. Ananke moves in a retrograde or in the wrong direction compared to
most of the other moons that orbit Jupiter.
Although discovered in 1951 Ananke did not receive its
present name until 1975, before then it was simply known as Jupiter XII. The
radius of Ananke is about 14 kilometres and takes around 610 day to orbit
Jupiter.
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