... 34 . Jupiter?s Moons and the Longitude Problem, Robert Mentzer . ... For a period lasting over a century, the most effective way to determine longitude was to observe the Galilean moons of Jupiter ...
... The word transit means going and in astronomy it means one heavenly object going in front of a larger heavenly object, like one of Jupiter s moons going in front of (transiting) Jupiter, or a planet is going in front of (transiting) a star. ...
... this one, note that at the scale used here, Jupiter would be the size of a grain of ... to complete the model, try to get to Jupiter and note that Saturn nearly doubles the ...
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... For instance, the Sun is about a thousand times as massive as Jupiter, so the mass center of the system is about one-one thousandth the way from the Sun to Jupiter. ...
... Mighty Jupiter may be the king of planets, but only Saturn wears a crown. ... Galileo Galilei, got tired of watching Jupiter's moons and decided to look at Saturn ... Yet it was unlike Jupiter and all the other worlds Galileo had seen. ...
... However, even a high-albedo, Jupiter-like planet is down by a factor of more than a ... of about 12 meters/sec due to the most massive planet in our Solar System, Jupiter ...
... Uranus was the father of the Titans and thus grandfather of Jupiter.) ... system, a designation it shares with Jupiter, Saturn, and its more distant neighbor ... difficult for Voyager's cameras to take photographs than it was at Jupiter or Saturn ...
... The Galileo spacecraft sent to explore Jupiter has rekindled great interest about ... patterns that scientists have determined are caused by Jupiter?s intense tidal pull ...
... convinced many planetary scientists that Jupiter's moon Europa has a global ocean ... Galilean satellites versus their distance from Jupiter and are led to think about ...
... For Jupiter we use 80 days and for Saturn 160 days for the intervals. ... can see Mercury, but Venus, Mars, and Jupiter (hidden behind "Earth" and the author ... UMCP]) constellations are generally closer to the Sun than either Jupiter or Saturn ...
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