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==History== [[File:Carme-WISE.gif|thumb|left|upright|Carme observed by the [[Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer]] (WISE) spacecraft in 2014]] Carme did not receive its present name until 1975;<ref>[http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/02800/02846.html IAUC 2846: ''Satellites of Jupiter''] 1974 October 7 (naming the moon)</ref> before then, it was simply known as '''{{nowrap|Jupiter XI}}'''. It was sometimes called "[[Pan (mythology)|Pan]]"<ref name="Gaposchkin">{{cite book| last=Payne-Gaposchkin|first=Cecilia|author2=Katherine Haramundanis|title=Introduction to Astronomy|year=1970|publisher=[[Prentice-Hall]]|location=Englewood Cliffs, N.J.|isbn=0-13-478107-4}}</ref> between 1955 and 1975 (Pan is now the name of [[Pan (moon)|a satellite of Saturn]]). It gives its name to the [[Carme group]], made up of irregular retrograde moons orbiting Jupiter at a distance ranging between 23 and 24 Gm and at an inclination of about 165Β°. Its orbital elements are as of 17 December 2020.<ref name="MPC127087"/> They are continuously changing due to [[Sun|solar]] and planetary perturbations.
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