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Pasiphaë
A tiny outer moon of Jupiter, named for a mythical Cretan queen. It pursues an eccentric orbit some 23,000 kilometres from Jupiter, suggesting that it was originally an asteroid captured by Jupiter's gravity, rather than a true member of the Jovian system. Pasiphaë is a small moon with a diameter of no more than fifty kilometres.
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