Cyllene (moon)


Cyllene, also known as ', is an irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi led by Scott S. Sheppard in 2003, receiving the temporary designation '. It gets as far as 33.8 million km from Jupiter.
Cyllene is about 2 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 23.9 million km in 754 days, at an inclination of 145° to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.416.
It was named in March 2005 after Cyllene, a naiad or oread associated with Mount Cyllene, Greece. She was a daughter of Zeus.
It belongs to the Pasiphae group, irregular retrograde moons orbiting Jupiter at distances ranging between 22.8 and 24.1 million km, and with inclinations ranging between 144.5° and 158.3°.