An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Pandora
  پاندورا  
Fr.: Pandore  

One of the inner moons of Saturn and the outer shepherd moon for the F-ring. It was discovered in 1980 from Voyager 1 photos and is also known as Saturn XVII.

See also: In Gk. mythology Pandora was the very first woman who was formed out of clay by the gods.
She was bestowed upon humankind by Zeus as a punishment for Prometheus’ theft of fire. Entrusted with a box containing all the ills that could plague people, she opened it out of curiosity and thereby released all the evils of human life.