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Callisto
[ kuh-lis-toh ]
noun
- Also Kallisto. Classical Mythology. a nymph attendant on Artemis, punished for a love affair with Zeus by being changed into a bear and then transformed into stars as the constellation Ursa Major.
- Astronomy. a large natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.
Callisto
1/ kəˈlɪstəʊ /
noun
- Greek myth a nymph who attracted the love of Zeus and was changed into a bear by Hera. Zeus then set her in the sky as the constellation Ursa Major
Callisto
2/ kəˈlɪstəʊ /
noun
- the second largest (but faintest) of the four Galilean satellites of Jupiter, discovered in 1610 by Galileo. Approximate diameter: 4800 km; orbital radius: 1 883 000 km See also Galilean satellite
Callisto
/ kə-lĭs′tō /
- One of the four brightest satellites of Jupiter and the eighth in distance from the planet. Originally sighted by Galileo, it is the largest planetary satellite.
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Suppose a bearer of the Medal of Honor formed a stock corporation to exploit the pitchblende of Callisto.
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She was delighted to see him, and said she would love to christen the Callisto or do anything else that he wished.
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Just then a quiver shook the Callisto, and glancing to the right they noticed one of the volcanoes in violent eruption.
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Slowly the Callisto left her resting-place as a Galatea might her pedestal, only, instead of coming down, she rose still higher.
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The Callisto was still going straight up, with a speed already as great as a cannon ball's, and was almost out of sight.
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