... the Sun (their aphelion) is near Jupiter's orbit, with the closest point (perihelion ... their aphelions beyond Neptune (which is six times as far from the Sun as Jupiter ...
... The region is thought to be the source of the comet that struck Jupiter in July 1994. ... as comet Encke, Giacobini-Zinner, and the infamous comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 that collided with the planet Jupiter in July 1994 ...
... In 1972, NASA launched Pioneer 10, a Jupiter spacecraft. ... Interest was shifting to four of the outer planets -- Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus and Neptune -- giant balls of dense gas quite ...
... 10-11 , Galileo and Ulysses have flown past the giant planet Jupiter: the first four have also visited Saturn, and Voyager 2 ... Ulysses flew by Jupiter and used the planet's gravity to deflect its motion to an orbit steeply inclined to the ecliptic ...
... 10-11 , Galileo and Ulysses have flown past the giant planet Jupiter: the first four have also visited Saturn, and Voyager 2 ... Ulysses flew by Jupiter and used the planet's gravity to deflect its motion to an orbit steeply inclined to the ecliptic ...
... D eimos and Phobos are probably asteroids perturbed by Jupiter into orbits that allowed them to be captured by Mars. more ... Mars ... Phobos ... Deimos ... Jupiter ... Bill Arnett ; last updated: 1995 Dec 28 .. ...