Satellites of Jupiter

On the recommendation of the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature, the IAU Executive Committee has approved the following names for the satellites of Jupiter: satellite V = Amalthea, VI = Himalia, VII = Elara, VIII = Pasiphae, IX = Sinope, X = Lysithea, XI = Carme, XII = Ananke, XIII = Leda. The name for satellite V, suggested by C. Flammarion, has been in unofficial use for many decades; that for satellite XIII was proposed by the discoverer, C. Kowal. The names for satellites VI-XIII are in accord with a suggestion by J. Blunck that the distant satellites with direct orbits should have names ending in a and those with retrograde orbits names ending in e. The resolution will be submitted to the XVIth IAU General Assembly in Grenoble in Aug. 1976 for acceptance.