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The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything. In the radio series and the first novel, a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings demand to learn the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer Deep Thought, specially built for this purpose.
The adjectival forms of the names of astronomical bodies are not always easily predictable. Attested adjectival forms of the larger bodies are listed below, along with the two small Martian moons; in some cases they are accompanied by their demonymic equivalents, which denote hypothetical inhabitants of these bodies.
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.
Prehistoric life on Jupiter in A Journey in Other Worlds. Jupiter was long believed, incorrectly, to be a solid planet onto which it would be possible to make a landing. [1] [2] It has made appearances in fiction since at least the 1752 novel Micromégas by Voltaire, wherein an alien from Sirius and another from Saturn pass Jupiter's satellites and land on the planet itself.
"The Moons of Jupiter" (1978/1982) is a short story by Canadian author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. It deals with how facts may change over time. [ 1 ] The story is 17 pages in length and made up of 7 sections with the shortest section being the final one.
Jupiter (Latin: Iūpiter or Iuppiter, [6] from Proto-Italic *djous "day, sky" + *patēr "father", thus "sky father" Greek: Δίας or Ζεύς), [7] also known as Jove (nom. and gen. Iovis [ˈjɔwɪs] ), is the god of the sky and thunder , and king of the gods in ancient Roman religion and mythology .
Europa (Jupiter II), the second of the four Galilean moons, is the second closest to Jupiter and the smallest at 3121.6 kilometers in diameter, which is slightly smaller than Earth's Moon. The name comes from a mythical Phoenician noblewoman, Europa , who was courted by Zeus and became the queen of Crete , though the name did not become widely ...
Sidereus Nuncius, in Latin in HTML format, or in Italian in pdf format or odt format. From LiberLiber. Linda Hall Library has a scanned first edition, as well as a scanned pirated edition from Frankfurt, also from 1610. Sidereus nuncius (Adams.5.61.1) Full digital edition in Cambridge Digital Library.