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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 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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    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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    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 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 age of the ring system is unknown, possibly dating back to Jupiter's formation. At least 95 moons orbit the planet; the four largest moons—Io, Europa...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    /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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  • direction and with an eccentricity of 0.1961. It belongs to the Carme group, made up of irregular retrograde moons orbiting Jupiter at a distance ranging between...
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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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    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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    JUICE orbiter mission in 2012 as part of its Cosmic Vision programme to explore three of Jupiter's Galilean moons, with a possible Ganymede lander provided...
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    Sheppard (2019), Moons of Jupiter, Carnegie Science, on line Daniel W. E. Green (11 April 2003). "IAUC 8116: Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn". International...
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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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    Non-human life on Jupiter has been portrayed as primitive in some works and more advanced than humans in others. The moons of Jupiter have also been featured...
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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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    Eukelade (redirect from Jupiter XLVII)
    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°. S.S. Sheppard...
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  • Jupiter's Moon (Hungarian: Jupiter holdja) is a 2017 Hungarian science fiction drama film directed by Kornél Mundruczó and written by Kata Wéber. It competed...
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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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  • "The Moons of Jupiter" (1978/1982) is a short story by Alice Munro, the Canadian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. It deals with how facts...
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    mother of the Muses (the three or the nine, depending on the author) by Zeus (Jupiter). Mneme belongs to the Ananke group, retrograde irregular moons which...
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    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°. S.S. Sheppard...
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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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  • (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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