Amalthea /æməlˈθiːə/ is a moon of Jupiter. It has the third-closest orbit around Jupiter among known moons and was the fifth moon of Jupiter to be discovered...

Amalthea may refer to: Amalthea (mythology), the foster-mother of Zeus in Greek mythology Amalthea (moon), a moon of Jupiter MV Amalthea, a cargo ship...

Greek mythology, Amalthea or Amaltheia (Ancient Greek: Ἀμάλθεια) is the most-frequently mentioned foster-mother of Zeus. The name Amalthea, in Greek "tender...

are Amalthea, Himalia, and the four Galilean moons. The masses of the inner satellites are estimated by assuming a density similar to Amalthea's (0.86 g/cm3)...

Pan is the largest crater on Jupiter's moon Amalthea. It is 89±4 kilometers across and at least 8 kilometers deep, with its center's coordinates being...

"The Way to Amalthea" (Russian: Путь на Амальтею, romanized: Put' na Amal'teyu) is a science fiction novella by Soviet writers Boris and Arkady Strugatsky...

surface. It is irregularly shaped and reddish in colour, and is thought like Amalthea to consist of porous water ice with unknown amounts of other materials...

Callisto § Faculae List of geological features on Ganymede § Faculae Amalthea (moon) § Physical characteristics This disambiguation page lists articles...

it is the sixth largest Jovian satellite, after the four Galilean moons and Amalthea. It was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at the Lick Observatory...

Gaea is an impact crater on Amalthea, one of the small moons of Jupiter. It is 75 km wide and at least 10–20 km deep. Its center coordinates are -80°S...

Jupiter". In 1892, the discovery of Amalthea, whose orbit lay closer to Jupiter than those of the Galilean moons, pushed Europa to the third position...

1610; they remained the only known moons of Jupiter until the discovery of the fifth largest moon of Jupiter Amalthea in 1892. Galileo initially named his...

Agrav drive fails, leaving the Jovian Moon falling towards Jupiter. Starr manages to land the ship on Amalthea, where they find that Red Summers is missing...

Martians, and settled the smaller rocky planets and moons throughout the Solar System apart from the Moon of the Earth. Jupiter V is discovered to be a spherical...

named for the moons of whose material they are composed: Amalthea and Thebe. The main and halo rings consist of dust ejected from the moons Metis, Adrastea...

113 Amalthea (/æməlˈθiːə/) is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 50 kilometers (31 miles) in diameter...

0.86 g/cm3, its mass can be estimated at 2 × 1015 kg. Amalthea's density implies that the moon is composed of water ice with a porosity of 10–15%, and...

Ida Facula is a bright mountain on Amalthea, one of Jupiter's smallest moons. It is known to be about 15 kilometers in width, somewhat smaller than the...

Jupiter 5 may refer to: Amalthea (moon), the moon of Jupiter, also called "Jupiter V" Jupiter Five (short story) story by Arthur C. Clarke Jupiter V (aeroplane)...

are commonplace, seen in such works as the 1960 short story "The Way to Amalthea" by Soviet science fiction authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the 1972...

in the F Ring Occasionally asteroid moons, such as those of 87 Sylvia Flashes seen near Jupiter's moon Amalthea that is likely debris ejected from its...

forces slowly cause its orbit to decay. If its density is similar to Amalthea's, Metis's orbit lies within the fluid Roche limit; however, because it...

satellite). Natural satellites are colloquially referred to as moons, a derivation from the Moon of Earth. In the Solar System, there are six planetary satellite...

(belt asteroid) Phoebe (moon of Saturn) Janus (moon of Saturn) Amalthea (moon of Jupiter) Epimetheus (moon of Saturn) Thebe (moon of Jupiter) Lutetia (belt...

A minor-planet moon is an astronomical object that orbits a minor planet as its natural satellite. As of January 2022[update], there are 457 minor planets...

regular moons are grouped into the planet-sized Galilean moons and the far smaller Amalthea group. They were named after lovers of Zeus, the Greek equivalent...

Lyctos Facula is a bright mountain on one of Jupiter's smallest moons Amalthea. It is believed to have a width of 25 kilometers and height of 20 kilometers...

observed was Amalthea, discovered by E. E. Barnard in 1892. Next were the Saturnian moons Epimetheus and Janus, observed in 1966. These two moons share the...

convention,[citation needed] Jupiter V, discovered in 1892, was given the name Amalthea, first used by the French astronomer Camille Flammarion. The other irregular...

refractor at Lick Observatory in California. This moon was later named Amalthea. It was the last planetary moon to be discovered directly by a visual observer...