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Leda (moon)
Leda Discovery Discovered by
Charles Kowal Discovered in
September 11, 1974 Orbital characteristics Mean radius
11,097,250 km (0.07418 AU) Eccentricity
0.1854 Periapsis
9,039,300 km (0.060 AU) Apoapsis ...
Leda
Related Category: Astronomy: General
(l´d), in astronomy, one of the 39 known moons, or natural satellites, of Jupiter.
Leda
Leda is the ninth moon from the Surface of Jupiter. This world is also the smallest of Jupiter's moons. It was discovered by Kowal in 1974.
Leda, Ananke, and Sinope are among the smallest moons in the solar system.
Himalia ...
Leda (NASA Thesaurus) A natural satellite of Jupiter orbiting at a mean distance of 11,094,000 kilometers. lee waves (NASA Thesaurus) Internal waves occurring on the downstream sides of submarine ridges.
Podría ser Zeus en el disfráz con el cualsedujo a Leda, la madre de Helena de Troya. En un mito, Cygnus es amigo del Phaethon, el hijo de Apolo, dios del Sol.
In Greek mythology, Zeus (the chief of the gods) seduced Leda (the wife of the King of Sparta, Tyndareos) on her wedding night by changing himself into a swan.
Their mother was Leda, Queen of Sparta, whom Zeus visited one day in the form of a swan (now represented by the constellation Cygnus). That same night she also slept with her husband, King Tyndareus.
As indicated in Table 14, the outer eight satellites form two groups: one in which the satellites exhibit retrograde revolution around the planet ( Ananke, Carme, Pasiphae, and Sinope) and the other in which the orbital motion is prograde ( Leda, ...
HMS Shannon was a 38-gun Leda class frigate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1806 and served in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812....
under Captain Sir Philip Broke.
One day Zeus seduced Leda, the wife of the King of Sparta, Tyndareos. To get Leda Zeus changed himself to a swan. Leda became pregant and gave birth to the twins Pollux and Castor and to a girl named Helena.
Nicholson Janus 1966 Audouin Dollfus Leda 1974 Charles T. Kowal Charon 1978 J. Christy Adrastea 1979 D. Jewitt & E. Danielson Metis 1979 Stephen Synnott Thebe 1979 Stephen Synnott Epimetheus 1980 R. Walker Atlas 1980 R.
Cygnus commemorates the Swan - a disguise which Zeus used to seduce Leda. The children of that affair (hatched from an egg) were Pollux and Helen (of Troy fame) as well as Castor, fathered by Leda's husband, King Tyndareus of Sparta.
The twins of Gemini, Castor and Pollux, were sons of Zeus and the mortal woman Leda. They were brothers of Helen of Troy.
Some asteroids share the same names as moons of Jupiter: 9 Metis, 38 Leda, 52 Europa, 85 Io, 113 Amalthea, 239 Adrastea.
Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Amalthea, Himalia, Elara, Pasiphae, Sinope, Lysithea, Carme, Ananke, Leda, Metis, Adrastea, Thebe, Callirrhoe, Themisto, Kalyke, Iocaste, Erinome, Harpalyke, Isonoe, Praxidike, Megaclite, Taygete, Chaldene, Autonoe, ...
These number five and include Leda, Himalia, Lysithea, and Elara along with the 4km across moon with the name S/2000 J11. These moons orbit between 11,165,000 and 12,656,940 km out, have orbital inclinations between 27.46 and 28.61 degrees.
They share the same mother (Leda) but have different fathers. Castor's father was a king of Sparta, Tyndareus - who would be chased from his throne but later rescued by Heracles (who nevertheless wound up killing him).
Still in order after the Galilean Satellites are recently discovered Themisto, Leda, Himalia, Lysithea, and Elara. Then there are four more recently discovered moons, Ananke, and three more moons, of which scientists know little about.
Their names are Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, Thebe, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Sinope, Leda, Himalia, Lysithea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasiphae W1302, W1700, W1704, W1704_2, W1800, W1903_s, W1805, W1902, W1904, W2002_2, and W1700_2. ...
and poet, was said to have been transformed into a swan after his death at the hands of the Maenads and placed in the sky next to his lyre, represented by the constellation Lyra. In another tale, Zeus transformed himself into a swan to seduce Leda, ...
fr/hypercat/ (a descendant of LEDA, the Lyon Extragalactic Database). To deal with whole catalogs at once, you can retrieve them from the CDS in Strasbourg. Some of the most popular ones are also to be found on the ADC CD-ROMs.
The diameters of the biggest, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto range between 3000 and 5000 km whereas the smallest, Leda has a diameter of only 10 km and the fifth largest, Amalthea is less than 300 km across.
(e.g. Gallium Arsenide), in which light is emitted in response to the forward-bias current. The light results from the recombination of electrons and positive holes, with a transition to a lower energy state. see also Diode [DC99]
LEDA ...
The smaller moons are the size of asteroids, and were discovered in the 1900s with more powerful telescopes. Jupiter's moons are (from nearest to furthest from the planet): Metis, Adrastea, Almathea, Thebe, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Leda, ...
Many legends refer to this distinctive constellation, including that of Zeus who disguised himself as a swan while visiting Leda, wife of the King of Sparta. This union resulted in Pollux, one of the heavenly twins.
 See also: Planet, Earth, Sun, Jupiter, Solar
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