page_title: Pasithee (moon)
hierarchical_section_title: Pasithee (moon)
caption_attribution_description: English: Animation of two discovery images of Jupiter's irregular moon Pasithee (S/2001 J 6), taken by David Jewitt and Scott Sheppard using the 3.6-meter Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) on 11 December 2001. Each image was taken approximately 35 minutes apart, showing the moon's motion relative to the background stars and galaxies. The black vertical bars obscuring the stars are image artifacts. The apparent magnitude of Pasithee is 23.5. The raw image datasets used are 615431p and 615438p. For comparison, the star field in these images can be viewed at the CDS's Aladin star atlas.
context_page_description: Pasithee, also known as Jupiter XXXVIII, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii led by Scott S. Sheppard in 2001, and given the temporary designation S/2001 J 6.
  Pasithee is about 2 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 23,307,000 km in 727.933 days, at an inclination of 166° to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.3289.
  It was named in August 2003 after Pasithee, one of the Charites, goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility, daughters of Zeus by Eurynome. Pasithee, better known as Aglaea, is the spouse of Hypnos and presides to hallucinations and hallucinogens.
  It belongs to the Carme group, made up of irregular retrograde moons orbiting Jupiter at a distance ranging between 23 and 24 Gm and at an inclination of about 165°.
context_section_description: Pasithee /ˈpæsɪθiː/, also known as Jupiter XXXVIII, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii led by Scott S. Sheppard in 2001, and given the temporary designation S/2001 J 6.
  Pasithee is about 2 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 23,307,000 km in 727.933 days, at an inclination of 166° to the ecliptic (164° to Jupiter's equator), in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.3289.
  It was named in August 2003 after Pasithee, one of the Charites, goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility, daughters of Zeus (Jupiter) by Eurynome. Pasithee, better known as Aglaea, is the spouse of Hypnos (Sleep) and presides to hallucinations and hallucinogens.
  It belongs to the Carme group, made up of irregular retrograde moons orbiting Jupiter at a distance ranging between 23 and 24 Gm and at an inclination of about 165°.
caption: Discovery images of Pasithee by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in December 2001