Outline of Jupiter
{{Short description|Overview of and topical guide to Jupiter}}
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Jupiter:
Jupiter – fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a giant planet with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter is a gas giant, along with Saturn, with the other two giant planets, Uranus and Neptune, being ice giants. Jupiter was known to astronomers of ancient times.{{cite web | last = De Crespigny | first = Rafe | title = Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling | url = http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/decrespigny/HuanLing_part2.pdf | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060907044624/http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/decrespigny/HuanLing_part2.pdf | archive-date = September 7, 2006 | work = Asian studies, Online Publications | access-date = May 1, 2012 | quote = Xu Huang apparently complained that the astronomy office had failed to give them proper emphasis to the eclipse and to other portents, including the movement of the planet Jupiter (taisui). At his instigation, Chen Shou/Yuan was summoned and questioned, and it was under this pressure that his advice implicated Liang Ji.}} The Romans named it after their god Jupiter.{{cite book
|author=Stuart Ross Taylor
|date=2001|title=Solar system evolution: a new perspective : an inquiry into the chemical composition, origin, and evolution of the solar system
|edition=2nd, illus., revised|publisher=Cambridge University Press
|isbn=978-0-521-64130-2|page=208}} When viewed from Earth, Jupiter can reach an apparent magnitude of −2.94, bright enough for its reflected light to cast shadows,{{cite web|url=http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/11/18/young-astronomer-captures-a-shadow-cast-by-jupiter/#.UaDO1UAoNAU |title=Young astronomer captures a shadow cast by Jupiter: Bad Astronomy |publisher=Blogs.discovermagazine.com |date=November 18, 2011 |access-date=May 27, 2013}} and making it on average the third-brightest object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus.
Contents
Location of Jupiter
- Milky Way Galaxy – barred spiral galaxy
- Orion Arm – a spiral arm of the Milky Way
- Solar System – the Sun and the objects that orbit it, including 8 planets, the 5th planet from the sun being Jupiter
- Orbit of Jupiter
Features of Jupiter
Natural satellites of Jupiter
= Inner Moons of Jupiter =
= Galilean moons of Jupiter =
== Io ==
== Europa ==
== Ganymede ==
== Callisto ==
= Irregular prograde moons of Jupiter =
== Himalia group of moons of Jupiter ==
= Ananke group of moons of Jupiter =
= Carme group of moons of Jupiter =
= Pasiphae group of moons of Jupiter =
History of Jupiter
Exploration of Jupiter
= Flyby missions to explore Jupiter =
= Direct missions to explore Jupiter =
= Proposed missions to explore Jupiter =
= Cancelled missions to explore Jupiter =
= Exploration of Jupiter's moons =
See also
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References
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External links
{{Sister project links|Jupiter}}
- {{cite web
|author=Hans Lohninger
|display-authors=etal|date = November 2, 2005
|url = http://www.vias.org/spacetrip/jupiter_1.html
|title = Jupiter, As Seen By Voyager 1
|work = A Trip into Space
|publisher = Virtual Institute of Applied Science
|access-date = March 9, 2007}}
- {{cite web
|first=Tony|last=Dunn|date = 2006|url = http://orbitsimulator.com/gravity/articles/joviansystem.html
|title = The Jovian System|work = Gravity Simulator
|access-date = March 9, 2007
}}—A simulation of the 62 moons of Jupiter.
- {{cite web
|author=Seronik, G.
|author2=Ashford, A. R.|url = http://skytonight.com/observing/objects/planets/3307071.html?page=1&c=y
|archive-url = https://archive.today/20121210054932/http://skytonight.com/observing/objects/planets/3307071.html?page=1&c=y
|url-status = dead
|archive-date = December 10, 2012
|title = Chasing the Moons of Jupiter
|publisher = Sky & Telescope|access-date = March 9, 2007
}}
- {{cite news
|author=Anonymous|date = May 2, 2007
|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6614557.stm
|title = In Pictures: New views of Jupiter
|publisher = BBC News|access-date = May 2, 2007}}
- {{cite web
|first=Fraser|last= Cain|url=http://www.astronomycast.com/2007/10/episode-56-jupiter/
|title=Jupiter|publisher = Universe Today
|access-date=April 1, 2008}}
- {{cite web|url=http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2007/01may_fantasticflyby/
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020171302/http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2007/01may_fantasticflyby/
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=October 20, 2011
|title= Fantastic Flyby of the New Horizons spacecraft (May 1, 2007.)|publisher = NASA|access-date=May 21, 2008}}
- {{cite web
|work=Planetary Science Research Discoveries
|publisher=University of Hawaii, NASA
|url=http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Archive/Archive-Jupiter.html
|title=Moons of Jupiter articles in Planetary Science Research Discoveries
|access-date=2015-11-17
}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us6EXc5Hyng June 2010 impact video]
- {{cite web|last=Bauer|first=Amanda|title=Jupiter|url=http://www.sixtysymbols.com/videos/jupiter.htm|work=Sixty Symbols|publisher=Brady Haran for the University of Nottingham|author2=Merrifield, Michael|date=2009}}
- {{cite web|title = NASA Solar System Jupiter|url=http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Jupiter&Display=Facts|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031215141351/http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Jupiter&Display=Facts|url-status=dead|archive-date=2003-12-15}}
- [http://digitalcollections.ucsc.edu/cdm/search/collection/p265101coll10/searchterm/Jupiter%20(planet)/order/title Photographs of Jupiter circa 1920s from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive, UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections]
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