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| name = Lysithea

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| discovery = yes

| discoverer = [[Seth Barnes Nicholson|S. B. Nicholson]]

| discovered = [[July 6]], [[1938]]<ref name="Nicholson 1938">{{cite journal| last=Nicholson| first=S. B.| title=Two New Satellites of Jupiter|journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific| year=1938| volume=50| pages= 292–293|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/PASP./0050//0000292.000.html}}</ref>

| mean_orbit_radius = 11,720,000 [[kilometer|km]]<ref name="Jacobson 2000">{{cite journal| last=Jacobson| first=R. A.|title=The orbits of outer Jovian satellites|journal=Astronomical Journal| year=2000| volume=120| pages=2679-2686|doi=10.1086/316817}}</ref>

| eccentricity = 0.11<ref name="Jacobson 2000"/>

| period = 259.20 d (0.69 [[year|a]])<ref name="Jacobson 2000"/>

| avg_speed = 3.29 km/s

| inclination = 28.30° (to the [[ecliptic]])<br/>25.77° (to Jupiter's equator)<ref name="Jacobson 2000"/>

| satellite_of = [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]

| physical_characteristics = yes

| mean_radius = 18 km

| surface_area = ~4100 [[square kilometre|km²]]

| volume = ~24,400 [[cubic kilometer|km³]]

| mass = 6.3{{e|16}} [[kilogram|kg]]

| density = 2.6 g/cm³ (assumed)

| surface_grav = ~0.013 [[Acceleration|m/s²]] (0.001 g)

| escape_velocity = ~0.022 km/s

| albedo = 0.04 (assumed)

| single_temperature =~124 K

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'''Lysithea''' ''(lye-sith'-ee-ə'' or ''lə-sith'-ee-ə,'' {{IPA2|laɪˈsɪθiə, lɨˈsɪθiə}}; Greek ''Λυσιθέα)'' is a [[prograde]] [[irregular satellite|irregular]] [[natural satellite|satellite]] of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. It was discovered by [[Seth Barnes Nicholson]] in [[1938]] at [[Mount Wilson Observatory]]<ref name="Nicholson 1938"/> and is named after the mythological [[Lysithea (mythology)|Lysithea]], daughter of [[Oceanus]] and one of [[Zeus]]' lovers.<ref name="IAUC 2846">{{cite journal| last=Marsden|first=B. G.|title=Satellites of Jupiter|journal=IAUC Circular |volume=2846|date=7 October 1974|url=http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/02800/02846.html}}</ref>

Lysithea didn't receive its present name until [[1975]]; before then, it was simply known as '''{{nowrap|Jupiter X}}'''. It was sometimes called "[[Demeter]]"<ref name="Gaposchkin">{{cite book| last=Payne-Gaposchkin|first=Cecilia|coauthors=Katherine Haramundanis|title=Introduction to Astronomy|year=1970|publisher=Prentice-Hall|___location=Englewood Cliffs, N.J.|isbn=0-134-78107-4}}</ref> from 1955 to 1975.

It belongs to the [[Himalia group]], five moons orbiting between 11 and 13 Gm from Jupiter at an inclination of about 28.3°.<ref name="Jacobson 2000"/> Its orbital elements are as of January 2000. They are continuously changing due to [[Solar]] and planetary perturbations.

==See also==

*[[Irregular satellite]]s

*[[Jupiter's moons in fiction]]

==References==

{{reflist}}

==External links==

*[http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Jup_Lysithea Lysithea Profile] by [http://solarsystem.nasa.gov NASA's Solar System Exploration]

*[http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~jewitt/irregulars.html David Jewitt pages]

*[http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~sheppard/satellites/jupsatdata.html Scott Sheppard pages]

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