Pasiphaë

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Pasiphaë in Greek mythology, the wife of Minos and mother of the Minotaur, and of Ariadne and Phaedra.

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Pasiphae

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Pasiphae (Jupiter VIII) One of the lesser satellites of Jupiter, with a diameter of 36 km; its orbit is retrograde.

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