Taygete (moon)

{{Infobox planet

| name = Taygete

| image = Taygete-Jewitt-CFHT-annotated.gif

| image_scale =

| caption = Taygete imaged by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in December 2001

| pronounced = {{IPAc-en|t|eɪ|ˈ|ɪ|dʒ|ə|t|iː}}Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language{{Dict.com|Taygete}}

| adjective = Taygetean {{IPAc-en|ˌ|t|eɪ|ə|dʒ|ə|ˈ|t|iː|ə|n}}There is also 'Taygetian', but that's for Taygetus.

| named_after = Τᾱϋγέτη Tāÿgetē

| mpc_name = Jupiter XX

| alt_names = S/2000 J 9

| discovery_ref =

| discoverer = Scott S. Sheppard
David C. Jewitt
Yanga R. Fernandez
Eugene A. Magnier

| discovery_site = Mauna Kea Observatory

| discovered = 25 November 2000

| earliest_precovery_date =

| satellite_of = Jupiter

| group = Carme group

| orbit_ref =

| epoch = 23 March 2018 (JD 2458200.5)

| observation_arc = 17.46 yr (6,377 days)

| semimajor = {{cvt|0.1507123|AU|km|lk=in}}

| eccentricity = 0.2487538

| period = –691.62 d

| mean_anomaly = 150.90619°

| mean_motion = {{Deg2DMS|0.52051735|sup=ms}} / day

| inclination = 165.95236° (to ecliptic)

| asc_node = 14.91608°

| arg_peri = 283.34358°

| physical_ref =

| mean_diameter = 5 km

| mass =

| density =

| surface_grav =

| escape_velocity =

| rotation =

| albedo = 0.04 (assumed)

| magnitude = 21.9

| abs_magnitude = 15.5

}}

Taygete {{IPAc-en|t|eɪ|ˈ|ɪ|dʒ|ə|t|iː}}, also known as {{nowrap|Jupiter XX}}, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii led by Scott S. Sheppard, in 2000, and given the temporary designation {{nowrap|S/2000 J 9}}.[http://cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/07500/07555.html IAUC 7555: Satellites of Jupiter] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020916000558/http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/07500/07555.html |date=2002-09-16 }} 2001 January 5 (discovery)[http://minorplanetcenter//mpec/K01/K01A29.html MPEC 2001-A29: S/2000 J 7, S/2000 J 8, S/2000 J 9, S/2000 J 10, S/2000 J 11] 2001 January 15 (discovery and ephemeris)[http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K01/K01T59.html MPEC 2001-T59: S/2000 J 8, S/2000 J 9, S/2000 J 10] 2001 October 15 (revised ephemeris)

Taygete is about 5 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 22,439,000 km in 691.62 days, at an inclination of 165° to the ecliptic (163° to Jupiter's equator), in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.3678.

It was named in October 2002[http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/07900/07998.html IAUC 7998: Satellites of Jupiter] 2002 October 22 (naming the moon) after Taygete, one of the Pleiades, daughter of the Titan Atlas and mother of Lacedaemon by Zeus (Jupiter).

It belongs to the Carme group, made up of irregular retrograde moons orbiting Jupiter at a distance ranging between 23 and 24 Gm and at an inclination of about 165°. Like Carme but unlike Kalyke, it is light red in color (B−V=0.56, V−R=0.52).{{cite journal|last=Grav|first=Tommy|title=Photometric survey of the irregular satellites|journal=Icarus|volume=166|issue=1|date=2003|pages=33–45|doi=10.1016/j.icarus.2003.07.005|author2=Holman, M. J.|author3= Gladman, B. J.|author4= Aksnes, K.|bibcode=2003Icar..166...33G|arxiv = astro-ph/0301016 |s2cid=7793999}}