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  2. Valetudo (moon) - Wikipedia

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    Valetudo / v æ l ə ˈ tj uː d oʊ /, also known as Jupiter LXII and originally known as S/2016 J 2, is an irregular moon of Jupiter.It was discovered by Scott S. Sheppard and his team in data acquired by the 6.5-m Magellan-Baade telescope of the Las Campanas Observatory in 2016, but was not announced until 17 July 2018, via a Minor Planet Electronic Circular from the Minor Planet Center ...

  3. 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]

  4. Thebe (moon) - Wikipedia

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    Thebe / ˈ θ iː b iː /, also known as Jupiter XIV, is the fourth of Jupiter's moons by distance from the planet. It was discovered by Stephen P. Synnott in images from the Voyager 1 space probe taken on March 5, 1979, while making its flyby of Jupiter. [7] In 1983, it was officially named after the mythological nymph Thebe. [8]

  5. Pictures of the week: Rugby, outer space and the Day of the Dead. ... (ISS) passes in front of the Moon as captured from Filakovo, southern Slovakia. ... A man takes photos of a 14 metre digital ...

  6. New NASA Pic of Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa Is the Most ... - AOL

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    Steven Hobbs via GettyNASA’s Jupiter-orbiting space probe Juno just snapped the most high resolution pic of one of the gas giant’s moons yet.The spacecraft captured a close-up shot of the icy ...

  7. Juno sends first image of Jupiter back from orbit - AOL

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    On Tuesday, NASA released the first set of images from Juno's in-orbit view and as expected, they are spectacular.

  8. Eupheme (moon) - Wikipedia

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    Eupheme orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 19,622 Mm in 628.06 days, at an inclination of 146° to the ecliptic (146° to Jupiter's equator), in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.2507. It belongs to the Ananke group, retrograde irregular moons that orbit Jupiter between 19.3 and 22.7 Gm, at inclinations of roughly 150°.

  9. Callirrhoe (moon) - Wikipedia

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    It is an irregular moon that orbits in a retrograde direction. Callirrhoe was imaged by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak National Observatory from October 6 through November 4, 1999, [8] and originally designated as asteroid 1999 UX 18. [9] [10] It was discovered to be in orbit around Jupiter by Tim Spahr on July 18, 2000, and then given the designation ...