Discovery of Euporie

Euporie is a tiny irregular moon of Jupiter, about two kilometres across, discovered in December 2001 by Scott Sheppard, David Jewitt and Jan Kleyna at the University of Hawaii. It was found during a survey using large ground-based telescopes that revealed a number of previously unknown small moons around the giant planet. Euporie moves on a distant orbit in the retrograde direction and belongs to the Ananke group of moons, which share similar orbits and may be fragments of a single captured body. After first being known by a provisional designation, it was given its permanent name in 2002, after a goddess of abundance in Greek myth.

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