What is Thyone (moon)?
'''Thyone''' or '''{{nowrap|Jupiter XXIX}}''', 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]], et al. in [[2001]], and given the designation '''{{nowrap|S/2001 J 2}}'''.<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> Thyone is about 4 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 21,406,000 km in 639.803 days, at an [[inclination]] of 147°<!--- 147.28 ---> to the [[ecliptic]] (147°<!--- 146.93 ---> to Jupiter's equator) with an [[orbital eccentricity]] of 0.2526. It was named in August 2003 after Thyone, better known as [[Semele]], one of [[Zeus]]' conquests in [[Greek mythology]].<ref>[http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/08100/08177.html IAUC 8177: ''Satellites of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus''] [[2003]] [[August 8]] (naming the moon)</ref> Thyone belongs to the [[Ananke group]], retrograde non-spherical moons which orbit Jupiter between 19,300,000 and 22,700,000 km, at inclinations of about 150°. == References == {{reflist}} {{Moons of Jupiter}} {{science-stub}} [[Category:Jupiter's moons]]