Leda (pronounced "LEE duh") is the smallest of Jupiter's known moons. It was discovered by [Charles Kowal]? at [Mount Palomar]? in 1974, and is named after the queen of Sparta? who was the mother of Castor? and Pollux? and of Helen of Troy who was born from an egg laid by her mother (Zeus, in the form of a swan?, was the father). It was the last Jovian moon to be discovered by Earth-based observers. |
Leda (pronounced "LEE duh") is the smallest of Jupiter's known moons. It was discovered by [Charles Kowal]? at [Mount Palomar]? in 1974, and is named after the queen of Sparta? who was the mother of Castor?, Pollux?, Clytemnestra? and Helen of Troy (Zeus, in the form of a swan?, was the father). It was the last Jovian moon to be discovered by Earth-based observers. |
See also Leda and the Swan