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LYSITHEAThis moon, discovered in 1938 by Seth Barnes Nicholson, is named for the mother of Dionysus (8)
CARMESmall moon (with a radius of 14 miles) discovered in 1938 by Seth Barnes Nicholson and named for the mother of the Cretan deity Britomartis (5)
SINOPEThis moon, discovered in 1938, is named for the nymph who outsmarted Zeus and Apollo (6)
SEMELEIn Greek mythology, the mother of Dionysus by Zeus
OVERTIMEPAYThis was set at 50% more than the normal rate in 1938 by the Fair Labor Standards Act: 2 wds.
PASIPHAEThis moon was first identified by Philibert Jacques Melotte in 1908, though it did not receive its present name until 1975, when it was named for the mother of the Minotaur (8)
ELARAJupiter'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)
AMALTHEADiscovered in 1892 by Edward Emerson Barnard, this moon circles Jupiter once every 11 hours 57 minutes. It is named for a naiad who was a nursemaid for Jupiter. (8)
HYPERIONThis 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
ADRASTEAJovian moon discovered by 12's science team in 1979; the second-closest to the planet after Metis (8)
RHEASaturn's second-largest moon, discovered in 1672 by the Italian-born French astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini, this moon is named for a Titan of Greek mythology.
AMERICANWord that when followed by Dad gives the title of an animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane (8)
DIONEThis moon was discovered by the Italian-born French astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini in 1684 and named for a daughter of the Titan Oceanus in Greek mythology. It is accompanied in its orbit by two muc
GANYMEDENeed a gym? Go off to this moon! (8).
METISDiscovered in July 1979 by the Voyager science team at NASA, this moon is named for Zeus's first wife, who was a Titan and the mother of Athena (5)
IAPETUSThe outermost of Saturn's major regular moons, extraordinary because of its great contrast in surface brightness. This moon was discovered by Gian Domenico Cassini in 1671, it has a radius of 718 km (
PHOEBEThis moon was discovered by the American astronomer William Henry Pickering in 1899. Roughly spherical and about 210 km (130 miles) in diameter, this moon has a mean distance from Saturn of about 12,9
TETHYSThis 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
ANANKEFormer asteroid that orbits Jupiter at a distance of some 23 million miles. This irregularly shaped moon is named for the personification of fate and necessity in Greek literature. (6)
ISRAELASPERWAYLocation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg which is named for the philanthropist/