Astronomy Fun Fact:Io is about 2275 miles in diameter. Our own moon is about 2160 miles in diameter. If Io were to replace our moon, its size would be almost the same. Its appearance would be greatly different. It would be seven to eight times brighter in the night sky than our present moon.
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To: petuniasevan
wow, why do you suppose it would appear so much brighter?
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Bump.
To: petuniasevan
I have friends who were on the Galileo flight team. :-)
To: petuniasevan
From a non-astronomy type dude, all I can say is it looks like our moon, but with a horrible "skin" disease.
11 posted on
10/20/2002 12:12:56 AM PDT by
bluefish
To: petuniasevan
ive found oranges in my fridge that look very much like Io
To: petuniasevan
Io should be renamed to Solaris since the surface is constantly changing.
16 posted on
10/31/2002 3:47:30 AM PST by
Consort
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