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Orbiting Jupiter is a 2015 young adult fiction novel written by Gary D. Schmidt, the author of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy and Okay for Now. The novel focuses on a Maine family as they begin fostering a teenage father.
Lucas Swieteck, Doug's older brother, appears as Jack and Joseph's gym coach in Orbiting Jupiter, set many years later. [2] Just Like That, released in January 2021, features Meryl Lee Kowalski as its main character. The Labors of Hercules Beal is also set many years later. Holling's friend Danny Hupfer is the titular Hercules' teacher.
The Jupiter novels are dedicated to novels patterned after Robert A. Heinlein's classic inspirational tales for young adults and adults. [1] The Jupiter novels is a series of science fiction novels from Tor Books featuring stories about young men and women. The series includes books from authors Charles Sheffield, Jerry Pournelle, and James P ...
Schmidt’s work has appeared multiple times on the CBC’s Best Children’s Book of the Year list, including Saint Ciaran, Straw into Gold, Mara's Stories, The Wonders of Donal O'Donnell, Trouble, What Came From the Stars, Martín de Porres, Orbiting Jupiter, Almost Time, and Celia Planted a Garden: The Story of Celia Thaxter and Her Island ...
An identical object (except in size) was found later, orbiting Jupiter (or on a moon of Saturn in the first novel, although this was changed to Jupiter in the sequel, 2010: Odyssey Two). This object was dubbed "TMA-2", a term that the book calls "doubly inappropriate": it had no magnetic field, and was millions of miles from Tycho.
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.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA's Europa Clipper space probe launches from Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 14, 2024, on a mission to orbit Jupiter and study its icy moon, Europa, for signs ...
In the final portion of the work (Book V), Kepler dealt with planetary motions, especially relationships between orbital velocity and orbital distance from the Sun. Similar relationships had been used by other astronomers, but Kepler—with Tycho's data and his own astronomical theories—treated them much more precisely and attached new ...