Arche is a small irregular moon of Jupiter, found in 2002 by a team of astronomers led by Scott Sheppard of the University of Hawaii during a survey for faint satellites of the giant planet. It orbits far from Jupiter on a retrograde path and belongs to the Carme group, a family of moons that probably came from the breakup of a captured asteroid. Its diameter is only a few kilometers. The moon is named after Arche, a figure from Greek mythology who is counted among the Muses in some traditions.
Before and after
- 11 October 2002Release of Korean Wikipedia
- 26 October 2002Moscow theater hostage crisis
- 26 October 2002Release of Malay Wikipedia
- 29 October 2002Release of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- 31 October 2002Discovery of Arche
- November 2002Grigori Perelman proves the Poincare conjecture
- 1 December 2002Release of Greek Wikipedia
- December 2002Launch of LinkedIn
- 5 December 2002Release of Turkish Wikipedia
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