Phoebe . Saturn IX . Phoebe [FEE-bee] is the last of the known satellites of Saturn, at a distance of 12.952 million kilometers (8 million miles). Phoebe orbits Saturn in a retrograde direction (opposite to the direction of the other satellites' orbits)...
Himalia . Jupiter VI . Himalia [hih-MAL-yuh] is the tenth known satellite of Jupiter. Himalia was a nymph who bore three sons of Zeus (Jupiter). Very little is known about Himalia. Himalia Statistics . ... Mass (Earth = 1) . ... Equatorial radius (km) ....
Despina . Neptune V - 1989N3 . Despina, only 27,700 kilometers (17,200 miles) from Neptune's clouds, orbits every 8 hours. Its diameter is about 150 kilometers (90 miles). ... Despina circles the planet in the same direction as Neptune rotates, and...
Leda . Jupiter XIII . Leda [LEE-duh] is the ninth known and smallest satellite of Jupiter. Leda was the queen of Sparta and the mother of Helen and Pollux. The picture shown above is the discovery image of Leda. ... Leda Statistics . ... Mass (Earth = 1...
... moon's orbit cuts the ecliptic at a shallow angle, around 5 degrees, which means ... moon hits the Earth, the Sun is eclipsed in the shadow area; if on the other hand ...
... the position of the Moon relative to the Sun is such that the Moon, which is 400 ... the Moon's orbit around Earth is an ellipse, not a circle, the Moon's distance from ...
... s known satellites and the third largest; it is the innermost of the Galilean moons ... Io is slightly larger than Earth's Moon . ... I n contrast to most of the moons in the outer solar system, Io and Europa may be ...
... Hubble Finds Ozone on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede . The Discovery of the Galilean Satellites . ... Ganymede [GAN-ee-meed] is the largest moon of Jupiter and is the largest in our solar system with a diameter of 5,262 km (3,280 ...
... Moon moving in that circle--rather than wandering off--the Earth must exert a pull ... on the Moon, one must also know how much weaker it was at the Moon's distance ...