Kallichore is about 2 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 23,112,000 km in 717.806 days, at an inclination of 165° to the ecliptic (164° to Jupiter's equator), in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.2042.
It was named in March 2005 after the nymph Kallichore.[6]
Kallichore belongs 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 165°.
References
^cf. 'Callichorum' in Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language
^As 'Callichorean' in William Robertson (1895) "A Hymn of the Earth" (Victor Hugo), in A Century of French Verse, p. 42