What is Pasithee (moon)?
[[File:Pasithee (moon).jpg|thumb|right|A picture of Pasithee as seen in [[Celestia]]]] '''Pasithee''' or '''{{nowrap|Jupiter XXXVIII}}''', is a non-[[Sphere|spherical]] moon of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. It was found by a team of astronomers from the [[University of Hawaii]] led by [[Scott S. Sheppard]] in [[2001]], and given the designation '''{{nowrap|S/2001 J 6}}'''.<ref>[http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/07900/07900.html IAUC 7900: ''Satellites of Jupiter''] [[2002]] [[May 16]] (discovery)</ref><ref>[http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K02/K02J54.html MPEC 2002-J54: ''Eleven New Satellites of Jupiter''] [[2002]] [[May 15]] (discovery and ephemeris)</ref> Pasithee is about 2 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 23,307,000 km in 726.933 days, at an [[inclination]] of 166° to the [[ecliptic]] (164° to Jupiter's equator), with an [[orbital eccentricity]] of 0.3289. It was named in August 2003 after [[Pasithee]], one of the [[Charites]], goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility, daughters of [[Zeus]] (Jupiter) by [[Eurynome]].<ref>[http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/08100/08177.html IAUC 8177: ''Satellites of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus''] [[2003]] [[August 8]] (naming the moon)</ref> Pasithee, better known as [[Aglaea]], is the spouse of [[Hypnos]] (Sleep) and presides to hallucinations and hallucinogens. It belongs to the [[Carme group]], made up of non-spherical retrograde moons orbiting Jupiter at a distance ranging between 23,000,000 and 24,000,000 km and at an inclination of about 165°. == References == {{reflist}} {{science-stub}} {{Moons of Jupiter}} [[Category:Jupiter's moons]]