Discovery of Taygete

Taygete is a small irregular moon of Jupiter, about five kilometres across, belonging to the Carme group of retrograde moons. It orbits the planet far out in the opposite direction to its rotation, and its group is believed to have formed from the breakup of a body captured by Jupiter. Taygete was discovered in a survey of Jupiter's outer moons by astronomers at the University of Hawaii, in a batch of new moons announced in 2000. It takes its name from Taygete, a figure of Greek mythology who was a lover of Zeus, and who is also associated with the Pleiades.

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