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NYTimes: 79 Moons of Jupiter and Counting
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[QUOTE="diogenesNY, post: 6028529, member: 166358"] By [URL='http://www.nytimes.com/by/kenneth-chang']Kenneth Chang[/URL] [LIST] [*]July 18, 2018 [/LIST] On Tuesday, scientists led by Scott S. Sheppard of [URL='https://carnegiescience.edu/node/2367']the Carnegie Institution for Science announced the discovery[/URL] of a dozen moons around Jupiter, bringing the total number orbiting the solar system’s largest planet to 79. [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/01/science/space/jupiter-and-its-moons.html']Next to the famous moons[/URL] that Galileo spotted through his telescope in 1610 — bigger-than-Mercury Ganymede, deeply cratered Callisto, volcanic Io, [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/science/europa-plumes-water.html']icy Europa[/URL] — the new ones are slight. They measure between a half mile and two miles wide and orbit millions of miles from the planet — good explanations for why no one had seen them until now. Article Continues: [URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/science/jupiter-new-moons.html[/URL] Source Link - Carnegie Institution: [URL]https://carnegiescience.edu/node/2367[/URL] ----------------------------------- diogenesNY [/QUOTE]
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