What is Thelxinoe (moon)?
'''Thelxinoe''' or '''{{nowrap|Jupiter XLII}}''' is a [[Satellite (natural)|moon]] of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. It was found by a team of astronomers from the [[University of Hawaii]] led by [[Scott S. Sheppard]] in 2004 from pictures taken in 2003, and originally got the designation '''{{nowrap|S/2003 J 22}}'''.<ref>[http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/08200/08276.html IAUC 8276: ''S/2003 J 22''] 2004 January 25 (discovery)</ref><ref>[http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K04/K04B41.html MPEC 2004-B41: ''S/2003 J 22''] 2004 January 24 (discovery and ephemeris)</ref> Thelxinoe is about 2 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 20,454,000&nbsp;km in 597.607 days, at an [[inclination]] of 151° to the [[ecliptic]] (153° to Jupiter's equator), with an [[orbital eccentricity]] of 0.2685. It was named in March 2005 after [[Thelxinoe]], one of the four original [[Muse]]s according to some Greek writers, and a daughter of [[Zeus]] (Jupiter) by [[Mnemosyne]].<ref>[http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/08500/08502.html IAUC 8502: ''Satellites of Jupiter''] 2005 March 30 (naming the moon)</ref> Thelxinoe belongs to the [[Ananke group]], retrograde non-[[Sphere|spherical]] moons which orbit Jupiter between 19,300,000 and 22,700,000&nbsp;km, at inclinations of about 150°. == References == {{reflist}} {{Moons of Jupiter}} {{sci-stub}} [[Category:Jupiter's moons]]