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    inner moons, nor hundreds of possible kilometer-sized outer irregular moons that were only briefly captured by telescopes. All together, Jupiter's moons form...
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    The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice, formerly JUICE) is an interplanetary spacecraft on its way to orbit and study three icy moons of Jupiter: Ganymede...
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    System (after the heliosphere). Jupiter forms a system of 95 known moons and probably many more, including the four large moons discovered by Galileo Galilei...
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    The Galilean moons (/ˌɡælɪˈleɪ.ən/), or Galilean satellites, are the four largest moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. They are the most...
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    The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) was a proposed NASA spacecraft designed to explore the icy moons of Jupiter. The main target was Europa, where an...
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  • The Moons of Jupiter is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by Macmillan of Canada in 1982. It was nominated for the 1982 Governor General's...
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    satellite of Jupiter". Following the discovery of moons of Saturn, a naming system based on that of Kepler and Marius was used for Jupiter's moons. Ganymede...
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    oʊ/), or Jupiter I, is the innermost and second-smallest of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter. Slightly larger than Earth's moon, Io is the...
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    or Jupiter II, is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 95 known moons of Jupiter. It...
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    (100 yd). Jupiter has 95 moons with known orbits; 72 of them have received permanent designations, and 57 have been named. Its eight regular moons are grouped...
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    /æməlˈθiːə/ is a moon of Jupiter. It has the third closest orbit around Jupiter among known moons and was the fifth moon of Jupiter to be discovered,...
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    the three other large Jovian moons—Ganymede, Io and Europa. Callisto, like all of Jupiter's moons, is named after one of Zeus's many lovers or other sexual...
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  • The Moons of Jupiter may refer to: Moons of Jupiter, the natural satellites of the planet Jupiter Galilean moons, the four largest moons and first discovered...
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    2012 as part of its Cosmic Vision programme to explore three of Jupiter's Galilean moons, with a possible Ganymede lander provided by Roscosmos. JUICE...
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    more irregular moons than Jupiter. Discovery of outer planet moons   Moons of Jupiter   Moons of Saturn   Moons of Uranus   Moons of Neptune The modern...
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  • moons of Jupiter. The name of Pluto's moon Charon was suggested by James W. Christy, its discoverer, soon after its discovery. The other four moons are...
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    explosion of discoveries in the 21st century, new moons have once again started to be left unnamed even after their numbering, beginning with Jupiter LI and...
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  • Jupiter's Moon (Hungarian: Jupiter holdja) is a 2017 Hungarian drama film directed by Kornél Mundruczó. It competed for the Palme d'Or in the main competition...
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    motions of Jupiter's moons, so that navigators could determine their longitude Johannes Kepler recognized at least as early as 1622 that Jupiter's moons obey...
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    and in certain constellations, and of the Medicean Stars (later Galilean moons) that appeared to be circling Jupiter. The Latin word nuncius was typically...
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    the mass of the planet alone, or the mass of the entire Jovian system to include the moons of Jupiter. Jupiter is by far the most massive planet in the...
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  • Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter is the fifth novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally...
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    Simon Marius (category University of Padua alumni)
    in the city of Ansbach. He is best known for being among the first observers of the four largest moons of Jupiter, and his publication of his discovery...
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    photo of Jupiter and rings in infrared at 2.12 and 3.23 μm Moons of Jupiter The normal optical depth is the ratio between the total cross section of the...
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  • between the moons of these giant planets. The terms eclipse, occultation, and transit are also used to describe these events. A satellite of Jupiter (for example)...
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    the two moons known to orbit Jupiter in less than the length of Jupiter's day, the other being Adrastea. It orbits within the main ring of Jupiter, and is...
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    (/ædrəˈstiːə/), also known as Jupiter XV, is the second by distance, and the smallest of the four inner moons of Jupiter. It was discovered in photographs...
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  • Jupiter Moon is a science fiction soap opera television series first broadcast by British Satellite Broadcasting's Galaxy channel in 1990. 150 episodes...
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    of outer planet moons   Moons of Jupiter   Moons of Saturn   Moons of Uranus   Moons of Neptune Although the first two Uranian moons were discovered in...
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    model of the Solar System was established. When in 1610 Galileo discovered the first satellites of another planet (the four Galilean moons of Jupiter), he...
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