Discovery of Carpo

Carpo is a very small moon of Jupiter, only a few kilometres across, discovered in February 2003 by a team led by Scott Sheppard at the University of Hawaii. It was found with large ground-based telescopes in a survey of the faint irregular moons around Jupiter. Unlike many of the distant outer moons, which orbit in the retrograde direction, Carpo moves in the same direction as the planet's rotation, but its orbit is highly inclined. It was first known by a provisional designation and received its permanent name in 2005, after one of the Horae in Greek mythology, a goddess associated with the autumn season and fruit.

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