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Facts about the biggest moon: moon of Jupiter
Facts hungry ^ | Devansh

Posted on 11/05/2021 6:24:15 AM PDT by Varun

My dear Brothers, have you ever thought about how many moons are there in our solar system?

Nearly, 200+

But the main point is: do you know which is the biggest? (List of 10 biggest moons)

Ganymede moon if Jupiter. You can understand this simply by this example.

If Ganymede starts orbiting then it would be a planet but it is bigger than mercury and has very little difference from mars. 

This is one of the 10 facts about different moons. You can others also: Here.


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; factsaboutganymede

1 posted on 11/05/2021 6:24:15 AM PDT by Varun
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To: Varun
If Ganymede starts orbiting then it would be a planet but it is bigger than mercury and has very little difference from mars.

Huh? English must not be this writers 1st language.

Ganymede already starting orbiting Jupiter about 4+ billion years ago

2 posted on 11/05/2021 6:27:03 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Varun

Pluto tried that ... then got demoted by a bunch of “decision makers of the Universe.”


3 posted on 11/05/2021 6:27:14 AM PDT by glennaro (Although I don't believe there are big conspiracies, neither do I believe there are big coincidences)
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To: Varun

4 posted on 11/05/2021 6:28:53 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Varun
"Don't look, Ethel!"... but it was too late, ..."
5 posted on 11/05/2021 6:30:15 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: Varun

You know there’s a ring around Uranus?


6 posted on 11/05/2021 6:30:55 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: qam1

Name is “Devansh” which looks Indian (kameltoe not fauxahauntis). The English style looks that way as well.

I did not much like working with Indians for many reasons but always liked the term “please do the needful by (date)” and borrowed it. Very efficient phrase.


7 posted on 11/05/2021 6:32:56 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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To: Varun

Ganymede?.......................


8 posted on 11/05/2021 6:33:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: HighSierra5

Those dirty rings! You try soaking and scrubbing but....


9 posted on 11/05/2021 6:39:09 AM PDT by desertsolitaire
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To: Varun

I thought you got zotted long ago.


10 posted on 11/05/2021 6:42:35 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Varun

Fun fact about Jupiter’s moons.

At the same time Galileo discovered them, Jupiter was passing real close to Neptune. When Galileo saw Jupiter’s moon’s in his scope he no doubt also saw Neptune. Though Neptune was probably too small in his early telescope and wasn’t moving as fast as Jupiter and its moons, so Galileo probably just assumed it was just another star and overlooked it.

But it’s pretty amazing that Galileo could have discovered Neptune 250+ years before Uranus.


11 posted on 11/05/2021 6:43:07 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: glennaro

Sigh... Back in the day the world was a better place... when Pluto was a planet.


12 posted on 11/05/2021 6:44:13 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Varun; rustyweiss74; gaggs; ANDmagazine.com; hassan.mahmoud; w1n1; TPIDerek; Slate Report; ...

Never mind. I see you are the latest person on the Hit and Run clickbait Ping List. Time to break it out again.

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13 posted on 11/05/2021 6:55:08 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Varun
The radius listed on your link for Earth's moon is 3475, without units. The diameter of the moon is 3476 kilometers (close enough), the radius 1738 kilometers, or 1080 miles.
14 posted on 11/05/2021 7:27:00 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: qam1

Actually Neptune was 6th Magnitude, and Galileo sketched it. It appeared to him to be a not very bright star. The Galilean moons are all about 6th magnitude, and on the threshold of naked eye visibility. They are difficult to discern without optical aid (telescope or binoculars) because of their proximity to bright (about -2 magnitude, more than 1,000 times brighter.) A few years ago Neptune and Jupiter were in the same relative position, and easily observable in binoculars. Neptune is not hard to see in binoculars, it is hard to recognize as a planet.

https://www.republicworld.com/technology-news/science/galileo-galilei-observed-neptune-on-this-day-in-1612-had-mistaken-it-for-a-star.html


15 posted on 11/05/2021 7:35:17 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Varun

The biggest moon I ever saw was the behind of a Code Pink protestor in Washington, DC.


16 posted on 11/05/2021 3:23:28 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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