Regular Satellites - Regularly spaced satellites with nearly circular orbits that form miniature "solar systems" about their parent planets
Resolution - The ability of a telescope to distinguish fine details of an image ...
[edit] Regular satellites
These are split into two groups:
Inner satellites or Amalthea group-they orbit very close to Jupiter: Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, and Thebe.
The regular satellites of Jupiter eat fiber have circular orbits and have for the most part, have orbital inclinations less than one degree (Thebe is the most odd here at an orbital inclination of 1.
The irregular satellites have been classified by their orbital characteristics into the Inuit, Norse, and Gallic groups, and their names are chosen from the corresponding mythologies.
In contrast, the outer moons of the gas giants (irregular satellites) are too far away to become 'locked'.
The satellites in these two groups are regular satellites, that is, their orbits are relatively circular, near equitorial, and prograde, i.e., moving in the same orbital direction as the planet.
Caliban and Sycorax are the first moons around Uranus to be called irregular satellites, due to their retrograde and highly inclined orbits. The other giant planets such as Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune are known to possess similar irregular moons.
A satellite that orbits close to a planet in a nearly circular, equatorial orbit. Regular satellites are believed to have been formed at the same time as the planet, ...
The Carme group is a dynamical grouping of the retrograde irregular satellites of Jupiter following similar orbits. Their semi-major axes range between 22.9 and 24.1 Gm, their inclinations between 164.9° and 165.
We usually say that these irregular satellites are "captured asteroids". But the mechanism of their capture is unclear. The truth is we don't really know how they came to be where they are.
Ananke
One of the largest of the outer irregular satellites of Jupiter.
Discovery
1951, by Seth Barnes Nicholson ...
Uranian Satellite Fact Sheet NASA GSFC NSSDC
The Uranian Irregular Satellites
Two Uranian Satellites Discovered in 1997 Cornell University
Uranian Satellite Discovered in 1999 University of Arizona
The rings: ...
Hamilton, "Saturn's largest ring", Nature Ltrs, 461, 22 October 2009.
Tiscareno, M.S., (private communication), estimated values based on semimajor axis of Daphnis and nominal gap width of 35km.
Regular Satellites of Saturn ...
Between Phoebe and an inner group of small moons (of 30 to 330 km, or 20 to 200 miles) near Saturn's rings are a group of eight, relatively large moons (like Jupiter's four Galileans). (See the latest news on Saturn's (irregular satellites.) ...
 See also: Satellite, Orbit, Saturn, Diameter, Eccentric
  
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