Across
- 1. _________ is named for the mother, by the Roman god Jupiter.
- 3. _________ is the third largest moon in our solar system and is almost the size of Mercury.
- 4. _____ is a Greek name meaning "she who belongs to Zeus."
- 5. _________ was discovered 31 October 2002, by Scott S. Sheppard at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii.
- 8. _________ has a mean radius of about 1.6 km. At a mean distance of about 23.2 million km from Jupiter, the satellite takes about 728 Earth days to complete one orbit.
- 9. ________and the moon Thebe provide the material for the Gossamer ring.
- 10. _________ is the smallest within this group having a mean radius of about 8.2 ± 2.0 km.
- 12. _________ was named for one of the Muses, who were daughters of Zeus, the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Jupiter.
- 17. _________was discovered on 28 September 1951 by Seth Barnes Nicholson on a photograph made with the 100-inch (2.5 m) Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California.
- 19. _________ is a member of the Ananke group, a family of Jovian satellites which have similar orbits and are therefore thought to have a common origin.
Down
- 1. _________ was discovered 19 October 1999 via the 36-inch telescope on Kitt Peak, in the course of observations by the Spacewatch program of the University of Arizona.
- 2. _______ is considered a member of the Pasiphae group, a family of Jovian satellites which have similar orbits and are therefore thought to have a common origin.
- 6. _________ has a mean radius of about 1.9 km. At a mean distance of about 23.1 million km from Jupiter, the satellite takes about 724 Earth days to complete one orbit.
- 7. _________is the eighth largest moon of Jupiter.
- 11. _________ has a mean radius of one kilometer, assuming an albedo of 0.04.
- 13. _________ was given one of the names in Greek mythology for the mother of the Graces by Zeus, the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Jupiter.
- 14. _________ has a mean radius of 2 km, assuming an albedo of 0.04.
- 15. ______is a member of the Carme group, a family of Jovian satellites which have similar orbits and appearance and are therefore thought to have a common origin.
- 16. _________ - an icy moon of Jupiter - is slightly smaller than Earth's moon.
- 18. _________ was named for one of the three Athenian goddesses of the flowers of spring and the fruits of summer and autumn.