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Pasiphae

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Also known as Pasiphaë, Jupiter VIII, 1908 CJ

moon of Jupiter

AI overview

Pasiphae is a moon that orbits Jupiter, one of the largest planets in our solar system. It was likely captured from the asteroid belt due to its unusual distant and tilted orbit compared to Jupiter's other moons.

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Encyclopedic overview

Pasiphae /pəˈsɪfeɪ.iː/, formerly spelled Pasiphaë, also known as Jupiter VIII, is one of the biggest retrograde irregular satellites of Jupiter. As an irregular moon with an eccentric orbit, it gets as far as 35.9 million km from Jupiter.

Discovery and Naming

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pasiphae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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