 Kozai effect: Encyclopedia - Carpo moonCarpo (IPA: /ˈkɑrpoʊ/, kar'-poe, Greek Καρπώ) (Jupiter XLVI) is a natural satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii led by Scott S. Sheppard in 2003, and was provisionally designated as S/2003 J 20 until it received its name in early 2005. Carpo is about 3 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 17,145 Mm in 458.625 days, at an inclination of 56° to the ecliptic (55° to Jupiter's equator), and with an eccentricity of 0.2736. All of the mo ...
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