Orthosie (moon)
moon of Jupiter
Orthosie or Jupiter XXXV, is a moon of Jupiter. It was found by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii led by Scott Sheppard in 2001, and given the designation S/2001 J 9.[1][2]
Orthosie is about 2 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 20,568,000 km in 602.619 days, at an inclination of 142° to the ecliptic (143° to Jupiter's equator), with an orbital eccentricity of 0.2433.
It was named in August 2003 after Orthosie, the Greek goddess of prosperity and one of the Horae.[3] The Horae (Hours) were daughters of Zeus and Themis.
Orthosie belongs to the Ananke group, retrograde non-spherical moons which orbit Jupiter between 19,300,000 and 22,700,000 km, at inclinations of about 150°.
References change
- ↑ IAUC 7900: Satellites of Jupiter 2002 May 16 (discovery)
- ↑ MPEC 2002-J54: Eleven New Satellites of Jupiter 2002 May 15 (discovery and ephemeris)
- ↑ IAUC 8177: Satellites of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus 2003 August 8 (naming the moon)