Leda (pronounced "LEE duh") is the smallest of
Jupiter's known [[moon]s. It was discovered by Kowal in 1974, and is named after the queen of Sparta
? who was the mother of Pollux
? and
Helen of Troy (
Zeus, in the form of a swan
?, was the father).
- Orbital radius: 11,094,000 km
- diameter: 16 km
- mass: 5.68*1015 kg
- Orbital period: 238.7 days
- Orbital inclination: 26.7°