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Not to be confused with Europa.

Euporie, also known as Jupiter XXXIV , is a natural satellite of the planet Jupiter. It was discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii led by Scott S. Sheppard in 2001. The moon was previously known as S/2001 J 10.

Euporie orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 19.088 million km in 535.780 days, at an inclination of 145° to the ecliptic (145° to Jupiter's equator) in a retrograde direction. It has an eccentricity of 0.0960. It is about 2 kilometers in diameter.

The moon was named after Euporie, a Greek goddess of abundance and one of the Horae in Greek mythology (and thus a daughter of Zeus).

Eukelade belongs to the Ananke group.

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