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The Planet Jupiter is the LARGEST PLANET in our Solar System.
Jupiter has at least 39 moons and they include: Europa, Io, Callisto and Ganymede.
Jupiter was explored in flybys in the 1970s by NASA's Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, and is currently being studied by the
Galileo spacecraft.
In May 2002, astronomers announced an
additional 11 moons for Planet Jupiter. All 11 are small bodies with diameters estimated to be between 2 and 4 kms. The moons are inclined, highly elliptical retrograde orbits with an average
distance of 21 million kms. from the giant planet. The number of moons now known to orbit Jupiter are 39 and makes it the planet with the most moons.
These discoveries have been possible by a new generation of electronic cameras that can scan wide areas of the sky and detect dim objects, making them very
efficient tools to search for small moons.
Jupiter related
Spacecraft:
Galileo:
Pioneer 10
and Pioneer
11:
Books:
Jupiter Odyssey: The Story of
Nasa's Galileo Mission by David M.
Harland
From Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk
Shoemaker by Levy by
David H. Levy
From Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk
The Giant Planet Jupiter by
John H. Rogers
From Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk
The Planet Jupiter Links:
Pictures and
Inormation on Jupiter:
Solarviews.com:
Project Galileo: NASA's
JPL Home Page
Nine Planets'
Jupiter:
NASA/JPL's Jupiter:
Jupiter Events :
References:
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