... Historical Data . Orbital Data . Physical Data . ... Sun . ... Jupiter . ... Saturn . ... William Herschel . ... William Cranch Bond . ... William Henry Pickering . Uranus . ... 1986 . Voyager 2 . ... William Lassell . ... J. Christy Key: Name Name of the planet or satellite. Orbits Sun or planet about which it orbits. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... October . ... By admin October 8, 2010 Posted in: Monthly Sky Notes . A giant from close up: an image made using data from the Cassini probe which flew past Jupiter in 2000. ... As it is so far from us, it takes JupiterтАЩs light a significant time to reach us тАУso when you see Jupiter tonight you are seeing it as it was 35?а minutes in the past. ... Posted October 12, 2010 at 11:15 PM . ... Astronotes . ...

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... Go directly to the moons of: . Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto . Go directly to the surface features of Earth's Moon and Mars . Planet & Moons . Pronunciation . ... Mercury . ... Mars: . 2 moons . ... Jupiter: . ... Neptune: . ... 1 moon . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Pulkovo Database of Observations of Planets and Their Satellites . Select object, time interval and type of observations . ... First year (optional) . Last year (optional) . ... satellite relative to planet . satellite relative to another satellite . ... Select database . ...

Giant Jupiter. Jupiter . ... Jupiter has no solid surface that is why speaking about its dimensious point the radius of the upper border line of the clouds, where the presseru is about 10 KPa; radius of Jupiter on the equator is 71400 km. ... The Jupiter satellites. ... Nowadays 16 satellites of the Jupiter are known: Adrastea, Mitis, Amaltea , Phina,then 4 Galilei satellites: Io , Europe , Hanimed , Callisto , Leda, Aimalia, Zicitea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasipe and Sinope. ... Jupiter's ring. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 14.07.1999 . ... Over the last month or so, the bright planets Jupiter and Saturn have come to adorn eastern skies before sunrise . ... While the Moon's phase is just past new moon , gone now from the pre-dawn horizon, brilliant Jupiter and Saturn can still be seen high toward the southeast in the constellation Aries. ... Publications with keywords: Moon - Jupiter - rocket - planet - Saturn . Publications with words: Moon - Jupiter - rocket - planet - Saturn . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... Slacker Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Life Under the Moon . ... Seeing Jupiter's Moons . ... Time Zones and the Spherical Earth . A Companion to the Earth? ... December 19, 1999) . ... Big Moon, Little Moon . ... How Big is the Moon? ... 14, 2000) . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! Talk about Bad Astronomy on the BA Bulletin Board! ...

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION . Seasons, phases of the Moon, eclipses, configurations . 2015: Seasons 2015: Coefficients of the Tchebyshov polynomials, the Moon 2015: Phases of the Moon , perigee and apogee 2015: Eclipses 2015: Configurations of the Sun, Moon and planets ------- 2014: Seasons 2014: Coefficients of the Tchebyshov polynomials, the Moon 2014: Phases of the Moon , perigee and apogee 2014: Eclipses 2014: Configurations of the Sun, ...

... Family of the Sun: The Planets . ... Spoken: Have you ever noticed in the sky, billions of stars in the dark, dark night? The family of the Sun in our Milky Way, eight planets spinning night & day . Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars: . The first four planets amidst the stars. ... Uranus and Neptune are the last two. ... The Earth we know is the best of all, . ... Mars is windy and full of dust, . ... Pluto is not a planet anymore, it is now called a Dwarf Planet. ?й 2010 OASES . ...

Many small irregular jovian satellites have been discovered recently. Many new moons of Saturn and Uranus are also showing up. Callirrhoe (S/1999 J1) was discovered by the Spacewatch project and the Minor Planet Center in 2000 from images taken in 1999. ... Names for the first 11 of these new moons were assigned by the IAU in Oct 2002. ... Data on the newly discovered moons can be found at JPL and Scott Sheppard's site . ... Discoveries in 2003 . new names . IAUC 7555 . IAUC 7460 . ...

... User Guide ] Task: planets Purpose: Print ephemerides of planets and the Sun. Categories: utility PLANETS is a MIRIAD task to report some parameters on solar system objects. ... Key: source This can be "sun" or the name of a major planet (excluding the Earth). ... No default. Key: epoch The time (UTC) for which information is required, in standard Miriad time format (yymmmdd.ddd or yymmmdd:hh:mm:ss.s). ... Key: telescop The name of an observatory used in computing rise and set times. ...

... B ut Europa's surface is not at all like anything in the inner solar system. ... T he images of Europa's surface strongly resemble images of sea ice on Earth. It is possible that beneath Europa's surface ice there is a layer of liquid water , perhaps as much as 50 km deep, kept liquid by tidally generated heat. ... It is most likely generated by sunlight and charged particles hitting Europa's icy surface producing water vapor which is subsequently split into hydrogen and oxygen. ...

... There has been a heated public discussion in the past few years about whether our ninth planet is really deserving of the name. Since Pluto orbits a star, and is much less luminous, it certainly satisfies the definition we have above. The problem is actually not with Pluto, but with a very large number of other bodies in our Solar System which also satisfy this definition, but which are not called planets. Perhaps the most notable of these is Ceres, the largest asteroid. ... Planet . ...

... Gallery . Astronomy Pictures . ... Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . Title: Planet Pictures . Description: All images were taken by Steve Massey . NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. Owner: Gallery Administrator . ... Views: 4739 . By: Gallery Administrator . ... Views: 4201 . ... Views: 4091 . ... Powered by Gallery 3.0.9 (Chartres) . ...

... 142,800 Mean density (kg/m^3) .. ... 5.203 Rotation period (length of day in Earth hours).. 9.8 Revolution period (length of year) (in Earth years). 11.86 Obliquity (tilt of axis) (degrees).. 3.08 Orbit inclination (degrees).. 1.3 Orbit eccentricity.. 0.048 Mean surface temperature (K)........................ 120 (cloud tops) Visual geometric albedo.. 0.44 Atmospheric components.............................. 90% hydrogen, 10% helium, .07% methane Rings.. ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) offers unprecedented observing opportunities in the near- and mid-infrared for the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. ... Obser vations of the Giant Planets J. N o r w o o d ( N M S U ), J. M o s e s (S SI), L . ... Jupiter S a t ur n Uranus Neptune Ephemeral phenomena are fairly common in the atmospheres of the giant planets. ... Uranus/ Neptune spectra are from Spitzer/ IRS cour tesy of G. Or ton. ...

... малой планете . ... на основании решения от 9 мая 2001 года . Комитета по наименованию малых планет . ... что малая планета, . зарегистрированная в международном каталоге малых планет . под N 11438 и имеющая предварительное обозначение 1973 QR1, . ... ZELDOVICH . ... Якова Борисовича Зельдовича . ... 11438) Zeidovich = 1973 QR1 . ... Малая планета (11438) Zeidovich открыта 29 августа 1973 г. Т.M.Смирновой в Крымской астрофизической обсерватории. ... Циркуляр Малых Планет N 42672, 2001. ...

Contents. planet: 5 -Jupiter satellites: J2-Europe: 3, J3-Ganymede: 4, J4-Callisto: 1 total number: 8 type: relative dates: 1998-1998 observatory: 084 - Pulkovo Reference. Kisseleva T.P., Izmailov I.S. (2000) The results of Positional CCD-observations of satellites of Saturn and Jupiter with 26-inch refractor at Pulkovo Izvestiia glavnoi astronomicheskoi observatorii Pulkovo. ... Year of the moment of observation 2. ... Day of the moment of observation with decimals 4. ... X, arcsec 7. ...