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An observer on Metis, the innermost moon, would see Jupiter's apparent diameter increased to 68° (130 times the visible diameter of the Moon, covering 18% of Metis's sky). A "full Jupiter" over Metis shines with about 4% of the Sun's brightness (light on Earth from a full moon is 400,000 times dimmer than sunlight).
In 2005, then twelve years old, the comedian and obscure physics "crank" Samuel P. Cottle claimed the moons of the gas giants with the exception of Jupiter's moon Io. Dennis Hope later swept in and began selling real estate on most of the rest of the celestial bodies of the solar system, so seems to acknowledge Cottle's claims as legitimate.
Just one day before opposition, Jupiter will be around 367 million miles away from the Earth, the closest the two planets have been in 59 years, according to NASA. The last time that Jupiter was ...
SolarQuest is a space-age real estate trading board game published in 1985 and developed by Valen Brost, who conceived the idea in 1976. [1] The game is patterned after Monopoly, but it replaces pewter tokens with rocket ships and hotels with metallic fuel stations.
Although the impacts took place on the side of Jupiter hidden from Earth, Galileo, then at a distance of 1.6 AU (240 million km; 150 million mi) from the planet, was able to see the impacts as they occurred. Jupiter's rapid rotation brought the impact sites into view for terrestrial observers a few minutes after the collisions. [19]
Size of Jupiter compared to Earth and Earth's Moon Jupiter is about ten times larger than Earth ( 11.209 R 🜨 ) and smaller than the Sun ( 0.102 76 R ☉ ). Jupiter's mass is 318 times that of Earth; [ 2 ] 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined.
The design used for the starship is a flying saucer, inspired by the spate of UFO sightings during the 1950s, [citation needed] and which itself inspired the look of the exterior saucer section and interior design of another iconic starship, Star Trek's USS Enterprise, as well as the Jupiter 2 space craft from the original 1965 TV series Lost ...
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