One of a group of small moons, also including Himalia, Leda and Elara, that orbit Jupiter far beyond the four large Galilean moons. Like the other moons in this group, Lysithea's orbit carries it around Jupiter at a distance of more than eleven million kilometres. With a diameter of just thirty-six kilometres, Lysithea is one of the smallest of its particular group of satellites - Himalia, by comparison, has a diameter more than five times greater.
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