Astronomy:Outline of Jupiter
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Short description: Overview of and topical guide to Jupiter
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Jupiter:
Jupiter – fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a giant planet with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter is a gas giant, along with Saturn, with the other two giant planets, Uranus and Neptune, being ice giants. Jupiter was known to astronomers of ancient times.[1] The Romans named it after their god Jupiter.[2] When viewed from Earth, Jupiter can reach an apparent magnitude of −2.94, bright enough for its reflected light to cast shadows,[3] and making it on average the third-brightest object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus.
Contents
- Astronomical object
- Gravitationally rounded object
- Planet
- Giant planet
- Planet of the Solar System
- Outer planet
- Superior planet
- Planet
- Gravitationally rounded object
Location of Jupiter
- Milky Way Galaxy – barred spiral galaxy
- Orion Arm – a spiral arm of the Milky Way
- Solar System – the Sun and the objects that orbit it, including 8 planets, the 5th planet from the sun being Jupiter
- Orbit of Jupiter
- Solar System – the Sun and the objects that orbit it, including 8 planets, the 5th planet from the sun being Jupiter
- Orion Arm – a spiral arm of the Milky Way
Features of Jupiter
Natural satellites of Jupiter
- Moons of Jupiter
- Jupiter Trojan
- Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
Inner Moons of Jupiter
Galilean moons of Jupiter
Io
- Volcanism on Io
- Exploration of Io
- Regions on Io
- Volcanic features on Io
- Mountains on Io
- Quadrangles on Io
Europa
- Geological features on Europa
- Craters on Europa
- Lineae on Europa
- Quadrangles on Europa
Ganymede
Callisto
- List of geological features on Callisto
- List of craters on Callisto
- Valhalla
Irregular prograde moons of Jupiter
Himalia group of moons of Jupiter
Ananke group of moons of Jupiter
- S/2003 J 12
- Euporie
- Eupheme
- Jupiter LV
- Jupiter LII
- Thelxinoe
- Euanthe
- Helike
- Orthosie
- Jupiter LXVIII
- Jupiter LIV
- Jupiter LXIV
- Iocaste
- S/2003 J 16
- Praxidike
- Harpalyke
- Mneme
- Hermippe
- Thyone
- Jupiter LXX
- Ananke
Carme group of moons of Jupiter
- Jupiter LXXII
- Herse
- Aitne
- Kale
- Taygete
- Jupiter LXI
- Chaldene
- S/2003 J 10
- Erinome
- Kallichore
- Jupiter LXVI
- Jupiter LXIX
- Kalyke
- Carme
- Jupiter LXIII
- Pasithee
- Jupiter LI
- Eukelade
- Arche
- Isonoe
- S/2003 J 9
- Eirene
Pasiphae group of moons of Jupiter
- Jupiter LXVII
- Philophrosyne
- S/2003 J 23
- Aoede
- Callirrhoe
- Eurydome
- Kore
- Cyllene
- Jupiter LVI
- Jupiter LIX
- S/2003 J 4
- Pasiphae
- Hegemone
- Sinope
- Sponde
- Autonoe
- Megaclite
- S/2003 J 2
History of Jupiter
History of Jupiter
Exploration of Jupiter
Flyby missions to explore Jupiter
- Pioneer program
- Pioneer 10
- Pioneer 11
- Voyager program
- Voyager 1
- Voyager 2
- Ulysses
- Cassini–Huygens
- New Horizons
Direct missions to explore Jupiter
Proposed missions to explore Jupiter
- EJSM/Laplace
- Jupiter Europa Orbiter
- Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter
- Jupiter Magnetospheric Orbiter
- Io Volcano Observer
- Colonization of Europa
Cancelled missions to explore Jupiter
Exploration of Jupiter's moons
- Exploration of Callisto
- Exploration of Europa
- Exploration of Ganymede
- Exploration of Io
- Jupiter in fiction
- Jupiter's moons in fiction
- Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect
- Jupiter Effect
- Sidereus Nuncius
See also
References
- ↑ De Crespigny, Rafe. "Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling". Asian studies, Online Publications. http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/decrespigny/HuanLing_part2.pdf. "Xu Huang apparently complained that the astronomy office had failed to give them proper emphasis to the eclipse and to other portents, including the movement of the planet Jupiter (taisui). At his instigation, Chen Shou/Yuan was summoned and questioned, and it was under this pressure that his advice implicated Liang Ji."
- ↑ Stuart Ross Taylor (2001). Solar system evolution: a new perspective : an inquiry into the chemical composition, origin, and evolution of the solar system (2nd, illus., revised ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-521-64130-2.
- ↑ "Young astronomer captures a shadow cast by Jupiter: Bad Astronomy". Blogs.discovermagazine.com. November 18, 2011. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/11/18/young-astronomer-captures-a-shadow-cast-by-jupiter/#.UaDO1UAoNAU.
External links
- Hans Lohninger (November 2, 2005). "Jupiter, As Seen By Voyager 1". A Trip into Space. Virtual Institute of Applied Science. http://www.vias.org/spacetrip/jupiter_1.html.
- Dunn, Tony (2006). "The Jovian System". Gravity Simulator. http://orbitsimulator.com/gravity/articles/joviansystem.html.—A simulation of the 62 moons of Jupiter.
- Seronik, G.; Ashford, A. R.. "Chasing the Moons of Jupiter". Sky & Telescope. http://skytonight.com/observing/objects/planets/3307071.html?page=1&c=y.
- Anonymous (May 2, 2007). "In Pictures: New views of Jupiter". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6614557.stm.
- Cain, Fraser. "Jupiter". Universe Today. http://www.astronomycast.com/2007/10/episode-56-jupiter/.
- "Fantastic Flyby of the New Horizons spacecraft (May 1, 2007.)". NASA. http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2007/01may_fantasticflyby/.
- "Moons of Jupiter articles in Planetary Science Research Discoveries". Planetary Science Research Discoveries. University of Hawaii, NASA. http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Archive/Archive-Jupiter.html.
- June 2010 impact video
- Bauer, Amanda; Merrifield, Michael (2009). "Jupiter". Sixty Symbols. Brady Haran for the University of Nottingham. http://www.sixtysymbols.com/videos/jupiter.htm.
- "NASA Solar System Jupiter". http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Jupiter&Display=Facts.
- Photographs of Jupiter circa 1920s from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive, UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections
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