Ganymede

[ gan-uh-meed ]

noun

1. Also Gan·y·me·des [] Classical Mythology. a Trojan youth who was abducted by Zeus and taken to Olympus, where he was made the cupbearer of the gods and became immortal.
2. Astronomy. the largest moon of the planet Jupiter.

Ganymede

¹

/ ˈɡænɪˌmiːd /

noun

1. the brightest and largest of the four Galilean satellites of Jupiter, and the largest in the solar system. Diameter: 5262 km; orbital radius: 1 070 000 km

Ganymede

²

/ ˈɡænɪˌmiːd /

noun

1. classical myth a beautiful Trojan youth who was abducted by Zeus to Olympus and made the cupbearer of the gods

Ganymede

/ găn′ə-mēd′ /

1. One of the four brightest satellites of Jupiter and the seventh in distance from the planet. Originally sighted by Galileo, it is the largest satellite in the solar system.

Example Sentences

On Sept. 3, 2034, Europa Clipper will intentionally slam into Jupiter’s rocky moon Ganymede, ensuring the spacecraft doesn’t accidentally strike one of the planet’s more scientifically interesting moons.

From Los Angeles Times

Slightly larger than Earth's moon, Io is the innermost of Jupiter's Galilean moons, which in addition to Io include Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.

From Science Daily

Astronomers had previously found clear signs of subsurface oceans on only two of Saturn’s moons—Enceladus and Titan—and on Jupiter’s moons Europa and Ganymede.

From National Geographic

Orbital resonance, as seen with Jupiter’s moons, happens when planetary bodies’ orbits line up – for example, Io orbits Jupiter four times in the time it takes Europa to orbit twice and Ganymede to orbit once.

From Salon

Compared to the familiar moons of our Solar System, they would all be oddballs: at least twice the size of Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System and therefore almost as big as Earth.

From Science Daily