Pandia is a small irregular moon of Jupiter, only a few kilometers across, which was found by a team led by the astronomer Scott Sheppard during a survey of the planet's surroundings with large telescopes. It belongs to the Himalia group, a family of moons that travel together on similar orbits in the same direction as the planet's rotation, and which are thought to be the fragments of a larger body broken up long ago. It was named after Pandia, a daughter of Zeus and the Moon goddess Selene in Greek mythology. Like most of Jupiter's smaller moons, it is too faint to be seen without a large telescope.
Before and after
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- 2017Construction of Rostov Arena
- 2017Rise of QAnon
- 2017Introduction of Binance
- 2017Discovery of Pandia
- 2017Artemis program
- 2017'Attention Is All You Need' introduces the Transformer
- 6 January 20172017 Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting
- 8 January 2017January 2017 Jerusalem vehicular attack
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