What is Eurydome (moon)?
'''Eurydome''' or '''{{nowrap|Jupiter XXXII}}''', is a [[List of Jupiter's moons|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 4}}'''.<ref>[http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/07900/07900.html IAUC 7900: ''Satellites of Jupiter''] 2002 May 16 (discovery) {{dead link|date=June 2012}}</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) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320123727/http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/mpec/K02/K02J54.html |date=2012-03-20 }}</ref> Eurydome is about 3&nbsp;kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 23,231,000&nbsp;km in 723.359 days, at an [[inclination]] of 149° to the [[ecliptic]] (147° to Jupiter's equator), with an [[orbital eccentricity]] of 0.3770. It was named in August 2003 after [[Eurydome]] in [[Greek mythology]], who is sometimes described as the mother of the [[Charites|Graces]] by [[Zeus]] (Jupiter).<ref>[http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/08100/08177.html IAUC 8177: ''Satellites of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus'']2003 August 8 (naming the moon) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709055841/http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/08100/08177.html |date=2008-07-09 }}</ref> Eurydome belongs to the [[Pasiphaë group]], non-[[Sphere|spherical]] retrograde moons orbiting Jupiter at distances ranging between 22,800,000 and 24,100,000&nbsp;km, and with [[inclination]]s ranging between 144.5° and 158.3°. == References == {{reflist}} <br />{{Moons of Jupiter}} [[Category:Jupiter's moons]]