| HIMALIA | Jupiter's fifth-largest moon, which was discovered in 1904 by Charles Dillon Perrine (7) |
| ELARA | Jupiter's eighth-largest moon, which was discovered in 1905 by Charles Dillon Perrine. It was named for the mother of Tityus in Greek mythology. (5) |
| THEBE | Jupiter's seventh-largest moon, which orbits the planet every 16 hours, is named for a nymph who was in love with Zeus (5) |
| NEPTUNE | Planet with moons which are named after lesser sea gods and nymphs in Greek myth (7) |
| RETTING | A medieval ... pond (or tanning pit) was discovered in Corpusty during an excavation by the Norfolk Archaeological Unit in 2001 (7) |
| RICHARD | _ III, King of England whose body was discovered in Leicester in 2012 (7) |
| IRIDIUM | The element was discovered in 1803 in the acid-insoluble residues of platinum ores by the English chemist Smithson Tennant. The international prototype standard kilogram of mass is made from an alloy |
| MALLORY | Mountaineer on the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition whose body was discovered in 1999 (6,7) |
| VALERIE | Actress Perrine |
| MOLOKAI | (GKN) Fifth- largest island of Hawaii, separated from Oahu by the Kaiwi Channel (7) |
| OKINAWA | The fifth largest Japanese island; principal settlement Naha (7) |
| LEDA | Moon that was discovered in 1974 and named for a woman in Greek myth who was believed to have been the mother (by Zeus, who had seduced her in the form of a swan) of Pollux and of Helen (4) |
| HYPERION | This moon is notable in that it has no regular rotation period but tumbles in an apparently random fashion in its orbit. It was discovered in 1848 by the American astronomers William Bond and George B |
| METRONOME | There's a meter on the moon which is used for timing |
| MAROONING | There's a ring around the moon which is isolating it uncomfortably (9) |
| TETHYS | This moon was discovered in 1684 by the Italian-born French astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini and named for a Titan in Greek mythology. Its most impressive feature is Ithaca Chasma, a giant crack sever |
| FLYINGFOX | Large fruit bat - a new species was discovered in September 2007 in a protected wildlife area in the |
| MELOS | Greek island in the Aegean Sea on which the Venus de Milo statue was discovered in 1820 (5) |
| GEMINI | Mid-sized northern constellation in which the Medusa Nebula was discovered in 1955 (6) |
| EVETESCHMACHER | Female accomplice of Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor in Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980), played by Valerie Perrine (3,11) |
