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Moons of Jupiter

Index Moons of Jupiter

There are 95 moons of Jupiter with confirmed orbits. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 230 relations: Absolute magnitude, Accretion (astrophysics), Adrastea (moon), Aitne (moon), Amalthea (moon), Ananke (moon), Ananke group, Aoede (moon), Apparent magnitude, Arche (moon), Asteroid, Asteroid belt, Asteroid capture, Autonoe (moon), Belarus, Brett J. Gladman, Callirrhoe (moon), Callisto (moon), Camille Flammarion, Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope, Carme (moon), Carme group, Carnegie Institution for Science, Carpo (moon), Cassini–Huygens, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chad Trujillo, Chaldene, Charge-coupled device, Charles Dillon Perrine, Charles T. Kowal, Collisional family, Cyllene (moon), D-type asteroid, David C. Jewitt, David J. Tholen, Day, Degree (angle), Dia (moon), Dwarf planet, Earth, Ecliptic, Edward Emerson Barnard, Eirene (moon), Elara (moon), Elizabeth Roemer, Epoch (astronomy), Erinome, Ersa (moon), Euanthe (moon), ... Expand index (180 more) »

  2. Lists of moons

Absolute magnitude

In astronomy, absolute magnitude is a measure of the luminosity of a celestial object on an inverse logarithmic astronomical magnitude scale.

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Accretion (astrophysics)

In astrophysics, accretion is the accumulation of particles into a massive object by gravitationally attracting more matter, typically gaseous matter, into an accretion disk.

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Adrastea (moon)

Adrastea, also known as, is the second by distance, and the smallest of the four inner moons of Jupiter.

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Aitne (moon)

Aitne, also known as, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Amalthea (moon)

Amalthea is a moon of Jupiter.

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Ananke (moon)

Ananke is a retrograde irregular moon of Jupiter.

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Ananke group

The Ananke group is a group of retrograde irregular satellites of Jupiter that follow similar orbits to Ananke and are thought to have a common origin.

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Aoede (moon)

Aoede, also known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Apparent magnitude

Apparent magnitude is a measure of the brightness of a star or other astronomical object.

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Arche (moon)

Arche, also known as, is a moon of Jupiter.

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Asteroid

An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor an identified comet— that orbits within the inner Solar System. Moons of Jupiter and asteroid are Solar System.

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Asteroid belt

The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. Moons of Jupiter and asteroid belt are Solar System.

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Asteroid capture

Asteroid capture is an orbital insertion of an asteroid around a larger planetary body.

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Autonoe (moon)

Autonoe, also known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

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Brett J. Gladman

Brett James Gladman (born April 19, 1966) is a Canadian astronomer and a full professor at the University of British Columbia's Department of Physics and Astronomy in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Callirrhoe (moon)

Callirrhoe (Greek: Καλλιρρόη), also known as, is one of Jupiter's outer natural satellites.

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Callisto (moon)

Callisto, or Jupiter IV, is the second-largest moon of Jupiter, after Ganymede. Moons of Jupiter and Callisto (moon) are Solar System.

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Camille Flammarion

Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (26 February 1842 – 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author.

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Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope

The Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) is located near the summit of Mauna Kea mountain on Hawaii's Big Island at an altitude of 4,204 meters (13,793 feet), part of the Mauna Kea Observatory.

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Carme (moon)

Carme is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Carme group

The Carme group is a group of retrograde irregular satellites of Jupiter that follow similar orbits to Carme and are thought to have a common origin.

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Carnegie Institution for Science

The Carnegie Institution for Science, also known as Carnegie Science and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, is an organization in the United States established to fund and perform scientific research.

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Carpo (moon)

Carpo, also, is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Cassini–Huygens

Cassini–Huygens, commonly called Cassini, was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.

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Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory

The Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) is an astronomical observatory located on the summit of Mt.

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Chad Trujillo

Chadwick A. Trujillo (born November 22, 1973) is an American astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and the co-discoverer of Eris, the most massive dwarf planet known in the Solar System.

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Chaldene

Chaldene, also known as, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Charge-coupled device

A charge-coupled device (CCD) is an integrated circuit containing an array of linked, or coupled, capacitors.

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Charles Dillon Perrine

Charles Dillon Perrine (July 28, 1867June 21, 1951) was an American astronomer at the Lick Observatory in California (1893-1909) who moved to Cordoba, Argentina to accept the position of Director of the Argentine National Observatory (1909-1936).

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Charles T. Kowal

Charles Thomas Kowal (November 8, 1940 – November 28, 2011) was an American astronomer known for his observations and discoveries in the Solar System.

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Collisional family

In astronomy, a collisional family is a group of objects that are thought to have a common origin in an impact (collision).

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Cyllene (moon)

Cyllene, also known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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D-type asteroid

D-type asteroids have a very low albedo and a featureless reddish spectrum.

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David C. Jewitt

David Clifford Jewitt (born 1958) is a British-American astronomer who studies the Solar System, especially its minor bodies.

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David J. Tholen

David James Tholen (born 1955) is an American astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaiʻi.

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Day

A day is the time period of a full rotation of the Earth with respect to the Sun.

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Degree (angle)

A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle in which one full rotation is 360 degrees.

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Dia (moon)

Dia, also known as Jupiter LIII, is a prograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Dwarf planet

A dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in direct orbit around the Sun, massive enough to be gravitationally rounded, but insufficient to achieve orbital dominance like the eight classical planets of the Solar System. Moons of Jupiter and dwarf planet are Solar System.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. Moons of Jupiter and Earth are Solar System.

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Ecliptic

The ecliptic or ecliptic plane is the orbital plane of Earth around the Sun.

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Edward Emerson Barnard

Edward Emerson Barnard (December 16, 1857 – February 6, 1923) was an American astronomer.

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Eirene (moon)

Eirene, also Jupiter LVII and originally known as, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Elara (moon)

Elara is a prograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Elizabeth Roemer

Elizabeth "Pat" Roemer (September 4, 1929April 8, 2016) was an American astronomer and educator who specialized in astronomy with a particular focus on comets and minor planets.

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Epoch (astronomy)

In astronomy, an epoch or reference epoch is a moment in time used as a reference point for some time-varying astronomical quantity.

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Erinome

Erinome, also known as, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Ersa (moon)

Ersa, also designated Jupiter LXXI, is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard on 11 May 2018, using the 4.0-meter Víctor M. Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Observatory, Chile.

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Euanthe (moon)

Euanthe, also known as, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Eukelade

Eukelade, also known as, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Eupheme (moon)

Eupheme, also Jupiter LX, originally known as, is an outer natural satellite of Jupiter, 2 km in diameter.

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Euporie (moon)

Euporie, also known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Europa (moon)

Europa, 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. Moons of Jupiter and Europa (moon) are Solar System.

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Eurydome (moon)

Eurydome, also known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Formation and evolution of the Solar System

There is evidence that the formation of the Solar System began about 4.6 billion years ago with the gravitational collapse of a small part of a giant molecular cloud. Moons of Jupiter and formation and evolution of the Solar System are Solar System.

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Galilean moons

The Galilean moons, or Galilean satellites, are the four largest moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Moons of Jupiter and Galilean moons are Solar System.

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Galileo (spacecraft)

Galileo was an American robotic space probe that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as the asteroids Gaspra and Ida.

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Galileo Galilei

Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei or simply Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.

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Gan De

Gan De also known as the Lord Gan (Gan Gong), was an ancient Chinese astronomer and astrologer born in the State of Qi.

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Ganymede (moon)

Ganymede, or Jupiter III, is the largest and most massive natural satellite of Jupiter and in the Solar System.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.

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Guernsey

Guernsey (Guernésiais: Guernési; Guernesey) is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy.

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Hale Telescope

The Hale Telescope is a, f/3.3 reflecting telescope at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, US, named after astronomer George Ellery Hale.

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Harpalyke (moon)

Harpalyke, also known as, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Hegemone (moon)

Hegemone, also known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Helike (moon)

Helike, also known as, is a moon of Jupiter.

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Hermippe (moon)

Hermippe, also known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Herse (moon)

Herse, or Jupiter L, previously known by its provisional designation of, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Himalia (moon)

Himalia, also known as Jupiter VI, is the largest irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Himalia group

The Himalia group is a group of prograde irregular satellites of Jupiter that follow similar orbits to Himalia and are thought to have a common origin.

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Hydrostatic equilibrium

In fluid mechanics, hydrostatic equilibrium (hydrostatic balance, hydrostasy) is the condition of a fluid or plastic solid at rest, which occurs when external forces, such as gravity, are balanced by a pressure-gradient force.

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Ice

Ice is water that is frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 °C, 32 °F, or 273.15 K. It occurs naturally on Earth, on other planets, in Oort cloud objects, and as interstellar ice.

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Impact event

An impact event is a collision between astronomical objects causing measurable effects.

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Inner moon

In astronomy, an inner moon or inner natural satellite is a natural satellite following a prograde, low-inclination orbit inwards of the large satellites of the parent planet.

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International Astronomical Union

The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronomical research, outreach, education, and development through global cooperation.

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Io (moon)

Io, or Jupiter I, is the innermost and second-smallest of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter. Moons of Jupiter and io (moon) are Solar System.

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Iocaste (moon)

Iocaste, also known as, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Irregular moon

In astronomy, an irregular moon, irregular satellite, or irregular natural satellite is a natural satellite following a distant, inclined, and often highly elliptical and retrograde orbit.

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Isonoe (moon)

Isonoe, also known as, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States.

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Juno (spacecraft)

Juno is a NASA space probe orbiting the planet Jupiter.

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Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. Moons of Jupiter and Jupiter are Solar System.

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Jupiter (god)

Jupiter (Iūpiter or Iuppiter, from Proto-Italic *djous "day, sky" + *patēr "father", thus "sky father" Greek: Δίας or Ζεύς), also known as Jove (gen. Iovis), is the god of the sky and thunder, and king of the gods in ancient Roman religion and mythology.

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Jupiter in fiction

Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, has appeared in works of fiction across several centuries.

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Jupiter LI

Jupiter LI, provisionally known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Jupiter LII

Jupiter LII, originally known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Jupiter LIV

Jupiter LIV, originally known as S/2016 J 1, is an outer natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Jupiter LIX

Jupiter LIX, provisionally known as S/2017 J 1, is an outer natural satellite of Jupiter on a retrograde orbit.

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Jupiter LV

Jupiter LV, provisionally known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Jupiter LVI

Jupiter LVI, provisionally known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Jupiter LXI

Jupiter LXI, provisionally known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Jupiter LXIII

Jupiter LXIII, provisionally known as S/2017 J 2, is an outer natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Jupiter LXIV

Jupiter LXIV, originally known as S/2017 J 3, is an outer natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Jupiter LXIX

Jupiter LXIX, originally known as S/2017 J 8, is an outer natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Jupiter LXVI

Jupiter LXVI, originally known as S/2017 J 5, is an outer natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Jupiter LXVII

Jupiter LXVII, originally known as S/2017 J 6, is an outer natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Jupiter LXVIII

Jupiter LXVIII, provisionally known as S/2017 J 7, is an outer natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Jupiter LXX

Jupiter LXX, originally known as S/2017 J 9, is an outer natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Jupiter LXXII

Jupiter LXXII, originally known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Jupiter trojan

The Jupiter trojans, commonly called trojan asteroids or simply trojans, are a large group of asteroids that share the planet Jupiter's orbit around the Sun.

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Kale (moon)

Kale, also known as, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Kallichore (moon)

Kallichore, also known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Kalyke

Kalyke, also known as, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Kilogram

The kilogram (also kilogramme) is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), having the unit symbol kg.

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Kore (moon)

Kore, also known as, is the outermost natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Kozai mechanism

In celestial mechanics, the Kozai mechanism is a dynamical phenomenon affecting the orbit of a binary system perturbed by a distant third body under certain conditions.

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Laplace plane

The Laplace plane or Laplacian plane of a planetary satellite, named after its discoverer Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), is a mean or reference plane about whose axis the instantaneous orbital plane of that satellite precesses.

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Las Campanas Observatory

Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS).

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Leda (moon)

Leda, also known as, is a prograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Lexico

Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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List of natural satellites

Of the Solar System's eight planets and its nine most likely dwarf planets, six planets and seven dwarf planets are known to be orbited by at least 300 natural satellites, or moons. Moons of Jupiter and List of natural satellites are lists of moons.

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List of Solar System objects by size

This article includes a list of the most massive known objects of the Solar System and partial lists of smaller objects by observed mean radius. Moons of Jupiter and list of Solar System objects by size are Solar System.

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Lost minor planet

A minor planet is "lost" when today's observers cannot find it, because its location is too uncertain to target observations.

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Lysithea (moon)

Lysithea is a prograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Magellan Telescopes

The Magellan Telescopes are a pair of optical telescopes located at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.

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Magma

Magma is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed.

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Magnification

Magnification is the process of enlarging the apparent size, not physical size, of something.

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Mauna Kea Observatories

The Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) are a group of independent astronomical research facilities and large telescope observatories that are located at the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, United States.

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Megaclite

Megaclite, also known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Mercury (planet)

Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System. Moons of Jupiter and Mercury (planet) are Solar System.

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Metis (moon)

Metis, also known as, is the innermost known moon of Jupiter.

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Mneme (moon)

Mneme, also known as, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. Moons of Jupiter and Moon are Solar System.

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Moonlet

A moonlet, minor moon, minor natural satellite, or minor satellite is a particularly small natural satellite orbiting a planet, dwarf planet, or other minor planet.

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Name conflicts in astronomy

There are several real or apparent name conflicts between different Solar System bodies, in spite of efforts to give every named body a distinct name.

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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (shortened as Roman or the Roman Space Telescope, and formerly the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope or WFIRST) is a NASA infrared space telescope in development and scheduled to launch to a Sun–Earth L2 orbit by May 2027.

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Natural satellite

A natural satellite is, in the most common usage, an astronomical body that orbits a planet, dwarf planet, or small Solar System body (or sometimes another natural satellite). Moons of Jupiter and natural satellite are Solar System.

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New Horizons

New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program.

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New Scientist

New Scientist is a popular science magazine covering all aspects of science and technology.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Numerical integration

In analysis, numerical integration comprises a broad family of algorithms for calculating the numerical value of a definite integral.

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Orbit

In celestial mechanics, an orbit (also known as orbital revolution) is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as a planet, moon, asteroid, or Lagrange point.

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Orbital eccentricity

In astrodynamics, the orbital eccentricity of an astronomical object is a dimensionless parameter that determines the amount by which its orbit around another body deviates from a perfect circle.

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Orbital inclination

Orbital inclination measures the tilt of an object's orbit around a celestial body.

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Orbital period

The orbital period (also revolution period) is the amount of time a given astronomical object takes to complete one orbit around another object.

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Orbital resonance

In celestial mechanics, orbital resonance occurs when orbiting bodies exert regular, periodic gravitational influence on each other, usually because their orbital periods are related by a ratio of small integers.

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Orthosie (moon)

Orthosie, also known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Osculating orbit

In astronomy, and in particular in astrodynamics, the osculating orbit of an object in space at a given moment in time is the gravitational Kepler orbit (i.e. an elliptic or other conic one) that it would have around its central body if perturbations were absent.

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Palomar Observatory

Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research observatory in the Palomar Mountains of San Diego County, California, United States.

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Pandia (moon)

Pandia, also designated Jupiter LXV, is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard on 11 May 2018, using the 4.0-meter Víctor M. Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Observatory, Chile.

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Pasiphae (moon)

Pasiphae, formerly spelled Pasiphaë, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Pasiphae group

The Pasiphae group is a group of retrograde irregular satellites of Jupiter that follow similar orbits to Pasiphae and are thought to have a common origin.

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Pasithee (moon)

Pasithee, also known as, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Perturbation (astronomy)

In astronomy, perturbation is the complex motion of a massive body subjected to forces other than the gravitational attraction of a single other massive body.

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Philibert Jacques Melotte

Philibert Jacques Melotte (29 January 1880 – 30 March 1961) was a British astronomer whose parents emigrated from Belgium.

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Philophrosyne (moon)

Philophrosyne, also Jupiter LVIII and provisionally known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Photographic plate

Photographic plates preceded photographic film as a capture medium in photography.

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Planet

A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself. Moons of Jupiter and planet are Solar System.

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Planetary oceanography

Planetary oceanography, also called astro-oceanography or exo-oceanography, is the study of oceans on planets and moons other than Earth.

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Planetary-mass object

A planetary-mass object (PMO), planemo, or planetary body is, by geophysical definition of celestial objects, any celestial object massive enough to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium, but not enough to sustain core fusion like a star.

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Praxidike (moon)

Praxidike, also known as, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Proper orbital elements

The proper orbital elements or proper elements of an orbit are constants of motion of an object in space that remain practically unchanged over an astronomically long timescale.

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Protoplanetary disk

A protoplanetary disk is a rotating circumstellar disc of dense gas and dust surrounding a young newly formed star, a T Tauri star, or Herbig Ae/Be star.

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Regular moon

In astronomy, a regular moon or a regular satellite is a natural satellite following a relatively close, stable, and circular orbit which is generally aligned to its primary's equator.

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Retrograde and prograde motion

Retrograde motion in astronomy is, in general, orbital or rotational motion of an object in the direction opposite the rotation of its primary, that is, the central object (right figure).

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Rings of Jupiter

The planet Jupiter has a system of faint planetary rings.

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Roentgen equivalent man

The roentgen equivalent man (rem) is a CGS unit of equivalent dose, effective dose, and committed dose, which are dose measures used to estimate potential health effects of low levels of ionizing radiation on the human body.

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Roman mythology

Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans, and is a form of Roman folklore.

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Roman numerals

Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages.

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S/2003 J 10

is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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S/2003 J 12

is a natural satellite of Jupiter, and is one of the smallest known natural satellites in the Solar System.

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S/2003 J 16

is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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S/2003 J 2

is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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S/2003 J 23

is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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S/2003 J 24

S/2003 J 24 (temporarily designated EJc0061) is a moon of Jupiter, discovered by Scott S. Sheppard et al.

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S/2003 J 4

is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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S/2003 J 9

is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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S/2011 J 3

S/2011 J 3 is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard on 27 September 2011, using the 6.5-meter Magellan-Baade Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile.

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S/2016 J 3

S/2016 J 3 is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard on 9 March 2016, using the 6.5-meter Magellan-Baade Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile.

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S/2016 J 4

S/2016 J 4 is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard on 9 March 2016, using the 6.5-meter Magellan-Baade Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile.

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S/2018 J 2

S/2018 J 2 is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard on 12 May 2018, using the 4.0-meter Víctor M. Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Observatory, Chile.

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S/2018 J 3

S/2018 J 3 is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard on 12 May 2018, using the 6.5-meter Magellan-Baade Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile.

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S/2018 J 4

S/2018 J 4 is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard on 11 May 2018, using the 4.0-meter Víctor M. Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Observatory, Chile.

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S/2021 J 1

S/2021 J 1 is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard on 12 August 2021, using the 6.5-meter Magellan-Baade Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile.

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S/2021 J 2

S/2021 J 2 is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard on 12 August 2021, using the 6.5-meter Magellan-Baade Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile.

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S/2021 J 3

S/2021 J 3 is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard on 12 August 2021, using the 6.5-meter Magellan-Baade Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile.

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S/2021 J 4

S/2021 J 4 is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard on 14 August 2021, using the 6.5-meter Magellan-Baade Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile.

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S/2021 J 5

S/2021 J 5 is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard, David J. Tholen, and Chad Trujillo on 5 September 2021, using the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii.

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S/2021 J 6

S/2021 J 6 is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard, David J. Tholen, and Chad Trujillo on 5 September 2021, using the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii.

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S/2022 J 1

S/2022 J 1 is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard on 30 August 2022, using the 4.0-meter Víctor M. Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Observatory, Chile.

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S/2022 J 2

S/2022 J 2 is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard on 15 October 2022 using the 6.5-meter Magellan-Baade Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile.

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S/2022 J 3

S/2022 J 3 is a small outer natural satellite of Jupiter discovered by Scott S. Sheppard on 30 August 2022, using the 4.0-meter Víctor M. Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Observatory, Chile.

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San Marino

San Marino (San Maréin or San Maroin), officially the Republic of San Marino (Repubblica di San Marino) and also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino (Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino), is a European microstate and enclave within Italy.

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Satellite system (astronomy)

A satellite system is a set of gravitationally bound objects in orbit around a planetary mass object (incl. sub-brown dwarfs and rogue planets) or minor planet, or its barycenter.

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Scott S. Sheppard

Scott Sander Sheppard (born 1977) is an American astronomer and a discoverer of numerous moons, comets and minor planets in the outer Solar System.

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Secular resonance

A secular resonance is a type of orbital resonance between two bodies with synchronized precessional frequencies.

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Semi-major and semi-minor axes

In geometry, the major axis of an ellipse is its longest diameter: a line segment that runs through the center and both foci, with ends at the two most widely separated points of the perimeter.

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Senegal

Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.

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Seth Barnes Nicholson

Seth Barnes Nicholson (November 12, 1891 – July 2, 1963) was an American astronomer.

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Simon Marius

Simon Marius (latinized form of Simon Mayr; 10 January 1573 – 5 January 1625) was a German astronomer.

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Sinope (moon)

Sinope is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Lick Observatory in 1914, and is named after Sinope of Greek mythology.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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Spacewatch

The Spacewatch Project is an astronomical survey that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets at University of Arizona telescopes on Kitt Peak near Tucson, Arizona.

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Spheroid

A spheroid, also known as an ellipsoid of revolution or rotational ellipsoid, is a quadric surface obtained by rotating an ellipse about one of its principal axes; in other words, an ellipsoid with two equal semi-diameters.

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Sponde

Sponde, also known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Stephen P. Synnott

Stephen P. Synnott (born 1946) is an American astronomer and Voyager scientist at JPL, and expert in spacecraft optical navigation techniques.

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Subaru Telescope

is the telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. Moons of Jupiter and Sun are Solar System.

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Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

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Taygete (moon)

Taygete, also known as, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Telescope

A telescope is a device used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation.

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Thebe (moon)

Thebe, also known as, is the fourth of Jupiter's moons by distance from the planet.

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Thelxinoe (moon)

Thelxinoe, also known as, is a natural satellite of Jupiter.

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Themisto (moon)

Themisto, also known as, is a small prograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Thyone (moon)

Thyone, also known as, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

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Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons

The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history. Moons of Jupiter and timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons are Solar System.

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Trans-Neptunian object

A trans-Neptunian object (TNO), also written transneptunian object, is any minor planet in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater average distance than Neptune, which has an orbital semi-major axis of 30.1 astronomical units (au). Moons of Jupiter and trans-Neptunian object are Solar System.

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UH88

The University of Hawaiʻi 88-inch (2.24-meter) telescope—called UH88, UH2.2, or simply 88 by members of the local astronomical community—is situated at the Mauna Kea Observatories and operated by the University's Institute for Astronomy.

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Ulysses (spacecraft)

Ulysses was a robotic space probe whose primary mission was to orbit the Sun and study it at all latitudes.

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Uncertainty parameter

The uncertainty parameter U is introduced by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) to quantify the uncertainty of a perturbed orbital solution for a minor planet.

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University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and Okanagan, in British Columbia, Canada.

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Uruguay

Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America.

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Valetudo (moon)

Valetudo, also known as Jupiter LXII and originally known as S/2016 J 2, is an irregular moon of Jupiter.

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Víctor M. Blanco Telescope

The Víctor M. Blanco Telescope, also known as the Blanco 4m, is a 4-metre aperture telescope located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile on the summit of Mt.

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Vera C. Rubin Observatory

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), is an astronomical observatory currently under construction in Chile.

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Volcanism on Io

Volcanism on Io, a moon of Jupiter, is represented by the presence of volcanoes, volcanic pits and lava flows on the surface.

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Voyager 1

Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere.

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Voyager 2

Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, as a part of the Voyager program.

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Voyager program

The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.

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Xi Zezong

Xi Zezong (June 6, 1927, Yuanqu, Shanxi – December 27, 2008, Beijing) was a Chinese astronomer, historian, and translator.

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Zeus

Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.

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1036 Ganymed

1036 Ganymed, provisional designation, is a stony asteroid on a highly eccentric orbit, classified as a near-Earth object of the Amor group.

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113 Amalthea

113 Amalthea is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.

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204 Kallisto

Kallisto (minor planet designation: 204 Kallisto) is a fairly typical, although sizeable Main belt asteroid.

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239 Adrastea

Adrastea (minor planet designation: 239 Adrastea) is a main belt asteroid.

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38 Leda

Leda (minor planet designation: 38 Leda) is a large, dark main-belt asteroid that was discovered by French astronomer J. Chacornac on January 12, 1856, and named after Leda, the mother of Helen of Troy in Greek mythology.

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52 Europa

Europa (minor planet designation: 52 Europa) is the 6th-largest asteroid in the asteroid belt, having a diameter of over 300 km, though it is not correspondingly massive.

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85 Io

Io (minor planet designation: 85 Io) is carbonaceous asteroid in the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 170 kilometers in diameter.

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9 Metis

Metis (minor planet designation: 9 Metis) is one of the larger main-belt asteroids.

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See also

Lists of moons

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Jupiter

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