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Astronomical objects discovered in 2000

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moon of Jupiter

Megaclite , also known as '''''', is one of Jupiter's smallest and outermost natural satellites.

moon of Jupiter

moon of Jupiter

moon of Jupiter

Chaldene , also known as ', is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi led by Scott S. Sheppard, in 2000, and given the temporary designation '.

Kuiper belt object

moon of Jupiter

moon of Jupiter

moon of Jupiter

Erinome, also known as '''''', is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi led by Scott S. Sheppard in 2000, and given the temporary designation .

Kalyke , also known as '''''', is a little retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

Paaliaq is a prograde irregular satellite of Saturn. It was discovered by J. J. Kavelaars, Brett J. Gladman, Jean-Marc Petit, Hans Scholl, Matthew J. Holman, Brian G. Marsden, Philip D. Nicholson and Joseph A. Burns in early October 2000, and given the temporary designation S/2000 S 2. It was named in August 2003 after a fictional shaman in the book The Curse of the Shaman, written by Michael Kusugak, who supplied Kavelaars with the names of giants from Inuit mythology that were used for other Saturnian moons.

Erriapus , also known as Saturn XXVIII, is one of the mid-sized irregular moons of Saturn.

Siarnaq is the second-largest irregular moon of Saturn. It was discovered on 23 September 2000 by a team of astronomers led by Brett J. Gladman. It was named after the Inuit goddess of the sea, Siarnaq, who is more commonly known as Sedna. Siarnaq is the largest member of Saturn's Inuit group of prograde irregular moons, which orbit far from Saturn in the same direction as the planet's rotation. The moons of the Inuit group are believed to have originated as fragments from the collisional breakup of a larger progenitor moon after it was gravitationally captured into orbit around Saturn several

Tarqeq, also known as Saturn LII (provisional designation S/2007 S 1) is a natural satellite of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Jan Kleyna, and Brian G. Marsden on 13 April 2007 from observations taken between 5 January 2006 and 22 March 2007. It is named after Tarqeq, the Inuit moon god, and is a member of the Inuit group of irregular satellites. It is about six kilometres in diameter. The Cassini spacecraft observed Tarqeq over 1.5 days on 15–16 January 2014.

main-belt asteroid

trans-Neptunian object

trans-Neptunian object

centaur near Uranus

15565 Benjaminsteele

15132 Steigmeyer

16271 Duanenichols

16225 Georgebaldo

20898 Fountainhills

15559 Abigailhines

15567 Giacomelli

16222 Donnanderson

16251 Barbifrank

17211 Brianfisher

16219 Venturelli

14274 Landstreet