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  2. Moons of Jupiter - Wikipedia

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    A montage of Jupiter and its four largest moons (distance and sizes not to scale) There are 95 moons of Jupiter with confirmed orbits as of 5 February 2024. [1] [note 1] This number does not include a number of meter-sized moonlets thought to be shed from the inner moons, nor hundreds of possible kilometer-sized outer irregular moons that were only briefly captured by telescopes. [4]

  3. List of Solar System objects by size - Wikipedia

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    Parts-per-million chart of the relative mass distribution of the Solar System, ... moon of 90482 Orcus [95] ... moon of Jupiter

  4. List of natural satellites - Wikipedia

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    Jupiter has 95 moons with known orbits; 72 of them have received permanent designations, and 57 have been named. Its eight regular moons are grouped into the planet-sized Galilean moons and the far smaller Amalthea group. They were named after lovers of Zeus, the Greek equivalent of Jupiter.

  5. Jupiter has almost 100 moons, new discovery finds - AOL

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    Jupiter has surpassed Saturn with the record for the planet with the most moons in our solar system. The gas giant has a total of 92 confirmed moons, according to new observations by astronomers.

  6. List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System

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    According to the IAU's explicit count, there are eight planets in the Solar System; four terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars) and four giant planets, which can be divided further into two gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn) and two ice giants (Uranus and Neptune). When excluding the Sun, the four giant planets account for more than ...

  7. Europa (moon) - Wikipedia

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    Europa / j ʊ ˈ r oʊ p ə / ⓘ, or Jupiter II, is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 95 known moons of Jupiter. It is also the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System .

  8. Jupiter - Wikipedia

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    3-hour timelapse showing rotation of Jupiter and orbital motion of the moons. Jupiter is the only planet whose barycentre with the Sun lies outside the volume of the Sun, though by 7% of the Sun's radius. [130] [131] The average distance between Jupiter and the Sun is 778 million km (5.20 AU) and it completes an orbit every 11.86 years.

  9. Here's Your Chance to Name 5 Jupiter Moons! (No Moon ... - AOL

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    Last summer, scientists announced they had discovered a dozen new moons orbiting Jupiter. But now comes the hard part: naming them.The researchers announced that they want some help with that task ...