Carme

Carme is one of Jupiter's moons, discovered in 1904. It is classified as an irregular moon, meaning it has a distant, highly inclined, and eccentric orbit around Jupiter. Carme belongs to the Ananke group of moons, which are thought to have originated from a single captured asteroid that later broke apart.1

The moons of Jupiter are categorized into regular and irregular satellites. The regular moons, including the four large Galilean satellites (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto), have orbits that are nearly circular and lie close to Jupiter's equatorial plane. In contrast, the irregular moons, like Carme, have much more varied and less predictable orbits.12