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Carme (Jupiter XI)

کارمه

Kârme (#)

Fr.: Carmé

The fourteenth of Jupiter’s known satellites; 40 km in size; → retrograde orbit. It was discovered by Nicholson in 1938.

Etymology (EN): In Gk mythology, Carme was a wife of Zeus, and the mother of
Britomartis, a Cretan goddess.