Discovery of Eurydome

Eurydome is a small irregular moon of Jupiter, only a few kilometres across, and belongs to the Pasiphae group of retrograde moons. They orbit the planet at a great distance in the opposite direction to its rotation, with widely varying and inclined orbits, and are believed to be fragments of a single captured body. Eurydome was discovered in a survey of the outer moons of Jupiter by astronomers at the University of Hawaii. Its name comes from a figure of Greek mythology connected with Zeus, and the final e is the convention for a retrograde moon.

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