The satellite is named after the nymph Amalthea from Greek mythology who nursed the infant Zeus ( the Greek equivalent of Jupiter ) with goat's milk.

Such appreciably nonzero values of inclination and eccentricity, though still small, are unusual for an inner satellite and can be explained by the influence of the innermost Galilean satellite, Io: in the past Amalthea has passed through several mean motion resonances with Io that have excited its inclination and eccentricity ( in a mean motion resonance the ratio of orbital periods of two bodies is a rational number like m: n ).

Amalthea's orbit lies near the outer edge of the Amalthea Gossamer Ring, which is composed of the dust ejected from the satellite.

Unfortunately, NASA didn't publish any picture of Amalthea during this famous flyby on November 5, 2002, and the resolution ( number of pixels ) of the released Jovian satellite pictures is generally low.

The name " Amalthea " was not formally adopted by the IAU until 1975, although it had been in informal use for many decades.

* Amalthea disambiguation page, for Amalthea in astronomy and other subjects

In a cave on Mount Ida on the island of Crete, baby Zeus was cared for and protected by a number of divine attendants, including the goat Amalthea (" Nourishing Goddess "), who fed him with her milk.

Many of the sculptures are displayed in the spaces they were intended for, including many works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, which comprise a large percent of his lifetime output of secular sculpture, starting with a juvenile, but talented, work such as the Goat Amalthea with Infant Jupiter and Faun ( 1615 )< ref >

Under the new process, Jupiter V continued as Amalthea, Jupiter XIII was named Leda in accordance with a suggestion of Kowal's, and all previous proposals for the seven satellites VI-XII were abandoned in favor of new names, in accordance with a scheme suggested by the German philologist Jürgen Blunck.

It has four main components: a thick inner torus of particles known as the " halo ring "; a relatively bright, exceptionally thin " main ring "; and two wide, thick and faint outer " gossamer rings ", named for the moons of whose material they are composed: Amalthea and Thebe.

She fed Zeus goat's milk from Amalthea and fed him honey, giving him a permanent taste for it even once he came to rule on Mount Olympus.

Amalthea was photographed in 1979 and 1980 by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, and later, in more detail, by the Galileo orbiter in the 1990s.

However, on November 5, 2002, the Galileo orbiter made a targeted flyby that came within 160 km of Amalthea and the deflection of its orbit was used to compute the moon's mass ( its volume had been calculated previously — to within 10 % or so — from a careful analysis of all extant images ).

During its flyby of Amalthea, the Galileo orbiter's star scanner detected nine flashes which appear to be small moonlets near the orbit of Amalthea.

He published lectures on the history of ancient sculpture in 1806, and painting in 1811, and edited the three volumes of an archaeological periodical called Amalthea from 1820 to 1825, which included contributions from the most eminent classical archaeologists of the day.

It was discovered on September 9, 1892, by Edward Emerson Barnard and named after Amalthea, a nymph in Greek mythology.

Amalthea was discovered on September 9, 1892, by Edward Emerson Barnard using the 36 inch ( 91 cm ) refractor telescope at Lick Observatory.

Bright patches of green appear on the major slopes of Amalthea, but the nature of this color is currently unknown.

However, this time Amalthea was on the other side of the planet, so it is probable that the particles form a ring around the planet near Amalthea's orbit.

There are four named geological features on Amalthea: two craters and two faculae ( bright spots ), which are believed to be mountains.

Amalthea is sometimes represented as the goat who suckled the infant-god in a cave in Cretan Mount Aigaion (" Goat Mountain "), sometimes as a goat-tending nymph of uncertain parentage ( the daughter of Oceanus, Haemonius, Olenos, or — according to Lactantius — Melisseus ), who brought him up on the milk of her goat.

Since she instead gave the infant Zeus to Adamanthea to nurse in a cave on a mountain in Crete, it is clear that Adamanthea is a doublet of Amalthea.

Pan is the largest crater on Jupiter's moon Amalthea.

* Gaea ( crater ), crater on Amalthea, a moon of Jupiter

* Pan ( crater ), on Jupiter's moon Amalthea

Starr manages to land the ship on Amalthea, where they find that Red Summers is missing.

A cargo spaceship, propelled by a photon engine with a large reflective mirror (" sail "), visits the Jupiter system to deliver a cargo to a manned science station on Amalthea.

The British strikebreakers were temporarily living on a ship called Amalthea.

The first reactions in Sweden to the bomb attack on the Amalthea were those of horror and disgust followed by condemnation, including from the workers movement.

The grave of Anton Nilson and his wife decorated on the 100th anniversary of the Amalthea bombing

Amalthea radiates slightly more heat than it receives from the Sun, which is probably due to the influence of Jovian heat flux (< 9 kelvins ), sunlight reflected from the planet (< 5 K ), and charged particle bombardment (< 2 K ).

Amalthea, Wien 2002 ISBN 3-85002-485-7

Amalthea circles Jupiter at a distance of 181 000 km ( 2. 54 Jupiter radii ).

Due to its low density and irregular shape, the escape velocity at the surface points of Amalthea closest to and furthest from Jupiter is no more than 1 m / s and dust can easily escape from it after, e. g. micrometeorite impacts ; this dust forms the Amalthea Gossamer Ring.

* Jupiter nursed by Amalthea ; Jupiter hurling thunderbolts at Giants ; Hylas carried off by Nymphs ; Sophonisba before Masinissa ; Continence of Scipio ; after Giulio Romano.

The bulk composition and mass of Metis are not known, but assuming that its mean density is like that of Amalthea (~ 0. 86 g / cm³ ), its mass can be estimated as ~ 3. 6 × 10 < sup > 16 </ sup > kg.

Because Amalthea is in synchronous rotation, Jupiter would not appear to move, and would be invisible from one side of Amalthea.

Amalthea is thought to be a fragment from the mantle of a Vesta-sized parent body that broke up around one billion years ago, with the other major remnant being 9 Metis.

* July 11 – July 12 – The steamship Amalthea, housing 80 British strikebreakers while in Malmö harbour, Sweden, is bombed by Anton Nilson ; 1 is killed, 20 injured.

# He was suckled by his first cousin, a goat named Amalthea, while a company of Kouretes, soldiers, or smaller gods, shouted and clashed their swords together to make noise so that Cronus would not hear the baby's cry,

From Jupiter's surface — or rather, from just above its cloudtops — Amalthea would appear very bright, shining with a magnitude of − 4. 7, similar to that of Venus from Earth.

From the surface of Amalthea, Jupiter would look enormous: 46 degrees across, it would appear roughly 92 times larger than the full moon.