Bored doing the web? Name a Jupiter moon!

[tangor]

The Carnegie Institution for Science, a research hub headquartered in America's capital, is asking for the public’s help to name five of Jupiter’s newly discovered moons.

[theregister.co.uk...]
There are rules, so "Moony McMoonface" will not be allowed.

[LifeinAsia]

There are rules, so "Moony McMoonface" will not be allowed.

Forget it- I'm out.

[lucy24]

If I remember rightly, Jupiter's moons are all named after humans the god took a passing interest in, so that should keep us going for a while.

:: wandering off to see if Oxford Classical Dictionary has a full list ::

[NickMNS]

@Lucy24
From Wikipedia:

Based on a suggestion from Johannes Kepler in October 1613, he also devised a naming scheme whereby each moon was named for a lover of the Greek mythological Zeus or his Roman equivalent, Jupiter.

And the bottom of this page provides a nice graphic (family tree or sorts) that shows the available names.
[en.wikipedia.org...]

[tangor]

Surprised to see this resurface. Must be the summer doldrums.

[graeme_p]

That Wikipedia page leaves out Helen and her brothers.

i agree with LifeInAsia - not interested in anything other than Moony McMoonface.

[lucy24]

leaves out Helen and her brothers

To say nothing of her sister? (For those who have forgotten: in one version of the story, Leda laid two eggs. One contained Helen and Polydeuces/Pollux; the other contained Clytemnestra and Castor. There are many other versions. The OCD devotes several paragraphs to the tangled mess.)

[engine]

Isn't one of them called Pete!

[graeme_p]

I forgot about Clytemnestra!

She always reminds me of sitting through the entire Oresteia as a teenager. Not something I would have got to under my own steam (even now my taste in theatre tends towards comedy), but my parents took me and it had a definite impact (well, I can remember it abut 35 years later for a start) - I remember it being more mesmerising than anything else (and not a barrel of laughs, obviously)

[lucy24]

and not a barrel of laughs, obviously

But at the end, they all get up and go to the seaside.

[tangor]

Further discussion is probably moot ... the contest ended April 19, 2019.

Wonder what they decided...

(Never bothered to play since voting required twitter and I don't do twitter.)

[Dimitri]

From 1955 to 1975 a moon of Jupiter was named after "me" , "Demeter" in Greek, but they renamed it into Lysithea, for some reason. Since that time, I boycott naming contests ...

[lucy24]

they renamed it into Lysithea, for some reason

I believe Demeter was one of the few females in classical mythology who escaped Zeus/Jupiter’s attention. (I would go look it up, but OCD is not on the nearest shelf, and the cat is in my lap.) Or was it because someone noticed that Demeter = Ceres, and the latter name had already been used?

[graeme_p]

Amusing to talk to a Lucy who knows her classics as I have one in the house. My daughter just sat Latin GCSE (British exam usually, but not always taken at 16) and taught herself (home educated, refused classes for Latin). She loves classics despite being mostly a science and maths girl, sometimes too much - I asked her to suggest some light amusing reading a few weeks ago and she suggested Plautus(in translation of course - no one expects my language skills to be up to much).