[020] Taygete

Taygete /teɪˈɪdʒətiː/, also known as Jupiter XX, is a little retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

It was discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi led by Scott S. Sheppard, in 2000, and given the temporary designation S/2000 J 9.^[8][1][9]

It was named in October 2002^[10] after Taygete, one of the Pleiades, daughter of the Titan Atlas and mother of Lacedaemon by Zeus (Jupiter).

Taygete orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 22,546,240 km in 691,62 days, at an inclination of 165° to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.248.

It belongs to the Carme group, made up a tightly of irregular retrograde moons orbiting Jupiter at a distance ranging between 22.7–23.5 million km, at an inclination of about 165°, and eccentricities between 0.24 and 0.28.

Taygetes' estimated diameter is 5 kilometers, assuming an albedo of 4%.

Like the other members of the Carme group (Exception Kalyke), it is light red in color (B−V=0.56, V−R=0.52), similar to D-type asteroids.