By Jürgen Blunck

Starting from Mars outward this concise guide presents thorough details at the satellites of the planets within the sunlight process. each one bankruptcy starts off with a bit at the discovery and the naming of the planet's satellites or earrings. this can be through a bit offering the historical resources of these names. The ebook comprises tables with the orbital and actual parameters of all satellites and is illustrated all through with sleek images of the planets and their moons in addition to historic and mythological drawings. The Cyrillic transcriptions of the satellite tv for pc names are supplied in a register.

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Sources of Satellite Names 48 Pausanias 9 (Boeotia), 29,2: The sons of Aloeus held that the Muses were three in number and gave them the names of Melete (‘Practice’), Mneme (‘Memory’) and Aoede (‘Song’). But they say that afterwards Pierus, a Macedonian, after whom the mountain in Macedonia was named, came to Thespiae and established nine Muses, changing their names to the present ones. Cicero: De Natura Deorum 3,54 (like Aratus, in: Tzetzes in Hesiodi Opera, ed. W. Gaisford, p. 28): Again, the first set of Muses are four, the daughters of the second Jupiter, Thelxinoe (‘Charm’), Aoede (‘Song’), Arche (‘Beginning’) and Melete (‘Practice’); the second set are the offspring of the third Jupiter and Mnemosyne, nine in number.

There Zeus bedded with her, and she bore Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys; but according to Homer, Sarpedon was a son of Zeus by Laodamia, daughter of Bellerophon. On the disappearing of Europe her father Agenor sent out his sons in search for her, telling them not to return until they had found Europa. With them her mother, Telephassa, and Thasus, son of Poseidon, or according to Pherecydes of Cilix, went forth in search of her. But when, after diligent search, they could not find Europa, they gave up the thought of returning home and took up their abode in diverse places; Phoenix settled in Phoenicia; Cilix settled near Phoenicia, and all the country subject to himself near the River Pyramus he called Cilicia; and Cadmus and Telephassa took up their abode in Thrace and in like manner Thasus founded a city Thasus in an island off Thrace and dwelt there.

Jupiter XXXVII KALE (Kαλη) One of the Graces, a daughter of Zeus, wife of Hephaistos. Sostratos, in: Eusthatius: Commentarii in Homeri Odysseam K(10),492: Teiresias the seer was staying at the wedding of Thetis and Peleus. There Aphrodite contended for the attraction with the Charites (Graces) whose names are Pasithee (‘Kind to everybody’), Kale (‘Beautiful’), and Euphrosyne. After having settled the dispute he (Teiresias) pronounced sentence that Kale was beautiful—Kale whom Hephaistos then married.

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