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Leda: Helen Of Troy
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Leda (pronounced "LEE duh") is the smallest of Jupiter's known moons. It was discovered by Charles Kowal at Mount Palomar in 1974, and is named after the queen of Sparta who was the mother of Castor, Pollux, Clytemnestra and Helen of Troy (Zeus, in the form of a swan, was the father). It was the last Jovian moon to be discovered by Earth-based observers.
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The subject of a story from classical mythology about the rape of Leda, a queen of Sparta, by Zeus, who had taken the form of a swan. Helen of Troy was conceived in the rape of Leda.
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American astronomer Charles Kowal discovered Leda in 1974. The moon is named for a character in Greek mythology, Leda, who was the queen of Sparta. Leda was a paramour of the god Zeus, whom the Romans renamed Jupiter. Leda and Zeus were the parents of Helen of Troy and Pollux.
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The goddess became pregnant, delivered an egg and then abandoned it. Fortunately, a shepherd found the egg and gave it to Leda, the wife of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta. From that egg came Helen of Troy. Helen was so beautiful that Leda claimed her as her own child.
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