Thebe

Thebe may refer to:

  • Any of several female characters in Greek mythology - see List of mythological figures named Thebe
  • Thebe (moon), a moon of Jupiter
  • Thebe, a unit of currency in Botswana - see Botswana pula
  • Copidosoma thebe, a wasp parasitic on caterpillars - see Copidosoma#Species
  • Thebe, an Amazon
  • Thebe, alternate name for the Titaness Phoebe
  • See also

  • Thebes (disambiguation)
  • Thebe (moon)

    Thebe (/ˈθb/ THEE-bee; Greek: Θήβη) also known as Jupiter XIV, is the fourth of Jupiter's moons by distance from the planet. It was discovered by Stephen P. Synnott in images from the Voyager 1 space probe taken on March 5, 1979, while making its flyby of Jupiter. In 1983 it was officially named after the mythological nymph Thebe.

    The second largest of the inner satellites of Jupiter, Thebe orbits within the outer edge of the Thebe gossamer ring that is formed from dust ejected from its surface. It is irregularly shaped and reddish in colour, and is thought like Amalthea to consist of porous water ice with unknown amounts of other materials. Its surface features include large craters and high mountains—some of them are comparable to the size of the moon itself.

    Thebe was photographed in 1979 by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, and later, in more detail, by the Galileo orbiter in the 1990s.

    Discovery and observations

    Thebe was discovered by Stephen P. Synnott in images from the Voyager 1 space probe taken on March 5, 1979, and was initially given the provisional designation S/1979 J 2. In 1983 it was officially named after the mythological nymph Thebe who was a lover of Zeus—the Greek equivalent of Jupiter.

    Asopus

    Asopus (/əˈspəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀσωπός Asôpos) is the name of five different rivers in Greece and one in Turkey. In Greek mythology, it was also the name of the gods of those rivers.

    Rivers

    The rivers in Greece

  • Asopos (Boeotia), a river of Boeotia originating on Mt. Cithaeron and flowing through the district of Plataea into the Euripus Strait.
  • Phliasian Asopus, originating in Phliasian territory and flowing through Sicyonian territory into the Gulf of Corinth near Sicyon. Pausanias [2.5.3] mentions that Phliasians and Sicyonians claimed that its source was in fact the Phrygian and Carian river Maeander that purportedly descended underground where it appeared to enter the sea at Miletus and rose again in the Peloponnesos as Asopus.
  • Thessalian Asopus, a river originating on Mount Oeta in Thessaly and emptying into the Malian Gulf.
  • Trachean Asopus, a river in Trachis near Thermopylae mentioned by Herodotus (7.199, 21617).
  • Asopus, a river in Corfu
  • The river in Turkey

  • Phrygian Asopus, a small river in Phrygia which joins the River Lycus near Laodicea on the Lycus.
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