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n. 1 (context Greek mythology English) The most frequently mentioned foster mother of Zeus, sometimes represented as the goat who suckled the infant-god in a mountain cave, sometimes as a goat-tending nymph. 2 (context astronomy English) The third most distant moon of Jupiter.
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Amalthea can refer to:
- Amalthea (Technical Summit), The annual Technical Summit of IIT Gandhinagar
- Amalthea (mythology), the foster-mother of Zeus in Greek mythology.
- Amaltheia, alternative name of the Cumaean Sibyl
- MV Amalthea, a cargo ship
- Amalthea (moon), a moon of Jupiter.
- Amalthea Cellars, a winery in New Jersey
- 113 Amalthea, an asteroid in the (main) asteroid belt.
- Amalthea, a ship bombed by the communist Anton Nilson in Malmö, Sweden in 1908.
- Lady Amalthea, a character in the fantasy novel and animated movie The Last Unicorn.
Amalthea ( ; ) is the third moon of Jupiter in order of distance from the planet. It was discovered on 9 September 1892, by Edward Emerson Barnard and named after Amalthea, a nymph in Greek mythology. It is also known as .
Amalthea is in a close orbit around Jupiter and is within the outer edge of the Amalthea Gossamer Ring, which is formed from dust ejected from its surface. From its surface, Jupiter would appear 46.5 degrees in diameter. Amalthea is the largest of the inner satellites of Jupiter. Irregularly shaped and reddish in color, it is thought to consist of porous water ice with unknown amounts of other materials. Its surface features include large craters and ridges.
Amalthea was photographed in 1979 by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, and later, in more detail, by the Galileo orbiter in the 1990s.
In Greek mythology, Amalthea or Amaltheia is the most-frequently mentioned foster-mother of Zeus.
Amalthea is the annual technical summit of Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. The first summit was organised in 2010 with the belief in spreading knowledge and since then it has been organised every year during the fall. With the aim to inculcate the spirit of innovation and technological development, this summit helps to bridge the gap that exists between the industry and academia. The summit's tagline is prosperity through technology.
The summit started off with a conclave in its foremost year and has now grown into a wide array of different activities which include the Conclave, Symposium and Exhibition along with a wide range of technical events being organised in 2015. The summit also consists of a networking dinner which provides a platform for interaction between various dignitaries of the industry, pioneers of the scientific world and also students from manifold disciplines.
Usage examples of "amalthea".
At last the living Sibyl, whose name was Amalthea, quite a young woman too, revealed herself.
The red shaft of light failed, so that Deiphobe disappeared-somebody, probably the novice, had covered up the tiny red-glass window-and a new shaft, white, struck down and lit up Amalthea seated on an ivory throne in the shadows behind.
It is as rich and fecund as the cornucopia, that fabulous horn of the goat Amalthea which suckled Zeus, perpetually overflowing with flowers, fruit, and who knows what.
The Jupiter crew refused to believe their story, and instead gave them supplies enough to go elsewhere, and towed them back out beyond the orbit of Amalthea, to the outer ring, and let them go with a warning not to return.
Hidalgo was a planetoid no bigger than the moon Amalthea, in a stretched-out orbit between Mars and Saturn.