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Does any moon other than the Earth's have a god or goddess associated with it?
 
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Mars' Satellites

Phobos is named after a messenger of the Roman god of war.
Deimos is named after the Roman god of dread.

Jupiter's Satellites

Adrastea was the name of the daughter of the god Jupiter and Ananke and was the distributor of rewards and punishments.
Amalthea was the nymph who nursed the infant Jupiter with goat's milk.
Ananke and Zeus were the parents of Adrastea.
Callisto was a nymph loved by Zeus.
Carme and Zeus were the parents of Britomartis, a Cretan goddess.
Elara and Zeus were the parents of Tityus the giant.
Europa was a Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus.
Ganymede was a Trojan boy whom Zeus carried away to be cup bearer to the gods.
Himalia was a nymph who bore three sons of Zeus (Jupiter).
Io was a maiden who was loved by Zeus (Jupiter) and transformed into a heifer.
Leda was the queen of Sparta and the mother of Helen and Pollux.
Lysithea was a daughter of Oceanus and one of Zeus's lovers.
Metis was a Titaness who was the first wife of Zeus (Jupiter).
Pasiphae was a witch and sister of Circe.
Sinope was a naiad daughter of the river Asopus.
Thebe was a nymph, daughter of the river god Asopus.

Jupiter's 23 other known moons have alpha/numeric designations.

Saturn's satellites

Pan was the son of Zeus and the nymph Callisto.
Atlas was the son of Iapetus.
Prometheus was the wisest of the Titans.
Pandora never should have opened that box!
Epimetheus was one of the dumbest Titans.
Janus was the guardian god of gates.
Mimas was one of the Gigantes, a tribe of giants born from Gaia.
Enceladus was a Gigantes who fled from Athena.
Tethys was one of the Titanides and the wife of Oceanus.
Telesto was one of the Oceanides.
Calypso was a goddess-nymph of the island Ogygia.
Dione was an Oceanid and Titaness and the mother or foster mother of Aphrodite.
Helene
Rhea was the mother of Zeus.
Titan The Titans were the six sons of Uranus.
Hyperion was the Titan of the Sun.
Iapetus was the Titan of the mountains.
Phoebe was one of the Titanides.


Uranus' satellites
(I couldn't find where Uranus' moon's names come from. Sorry!)
Cordelia
Ophelia
Bianca
Cressida
Desdemona
Juliet
Portia
Rosalind
Belinda
Puck
Miranda
Ariel
Umbriel
Titania
Oberon
Caliban
Sycorax

Neptune's Satellites

Naiad Naiads were fresh water nymphs.
Thalassa was the female personification of the sea.
Despina was a goddes raised by the Titans.
Galatea was One of the Nereids.
Larissa I don't know who or what this satellite was named after.
Proteus was a sea god.
Triton was a sea god.
Nereid One of the fifty sea-goddess daughters of Nereus.


Pluto's satellite

Charon named after the boatman in Greek mythology who operated the ferry across the River Styx.

For more information:

http://www.solarviews.com/ss.html

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/features/planets/planetsfeat.html

http://www.theoi.com/index.htm
 
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Originally posted by JohnGalt:
_Uranus' satellites_
(I couldn't find where Uranus' moon's names come from. Sorry!)


They're mostly named for characters in Shakespeare's plays, with a little Alexander Pope thrown in.

See the story here: http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/Physics/9610/p00504d.html


Uranus also has the provisional 1986U10 and the 1999 discoveries: Stephano, Prospero, and Setebos. http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/uranew.html#1999U1

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