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🚨BREAKING🚨: Astronomers Just Discovered 12 New Moons Orbiting Jupiter
https://news.binodon24live.com ^ | February 10, 2023 | Staff

Posted on 02/10/2023 11:20:26 AM PST by Red Badger

With the confirmation of a dozen new moons in Jupiter’s orbit, the biggest planet in the Solar System is suddenly the neighborhood big dog when it comes to moon collection.

With the advent of these 12 previously undiscovered moons, the gas giant now has 92 known orbiting entities, surpassing Saturn’s amazing collection of 83.

Although scientists face a significant challenge in locating these tiny celestial entities, both planets are really expected to be joined by many more moons. The intense glare emitted by Jupiter further complicates things, and any that are tiny enough to have escaped discovery up to now may probably only be spotted with highly powerful telescopes that don’t have a broad enough field of vision to take in the whole Jovian system.

Dr. Scott Sheppard has spent the last several years following the orbits of the 12 new moons, which have recently been published by the Minor Planet Center, unfazed by these challenges (MPC). Sheppard also made a prior discovery of Jovian moons, which was released back in 2018.

Nine of the twelve new satellites are found in the far-off moon clusters that orbit Jupiter retrogradely, or in the opposite direction of the inner moons. These tiny backtracking objects all take at least 550 days to complete one orbit despite their small size.

The remaining three moons were found among the prograde satellite clusters that are situated between the massive, nearby Galilean moons and the distant retrograde objects. One is in the Carpo group, which is around 17 million kilometers (10.6 million miles) from Jupiter, while the other two are in the Himalia group, which circles the planet at a distance of between 11 and 12 million kilometers (6.8 to 7.5 million miles).

The orbits of each of Jupiter’s new 12 accessories take more than 340 days to complete, and none of them are large enough to get a given name. These tiny moons are supposed to be the fragments of much bigger satellites that broke apart after collision with another object millions of years ago.

Although scientists are unable to pinpoint what caused these old moons to collide, Sheppard’s 2018 discovery provided a hint in the form of an uncommon moon known as Valetudo. Valetudo defies the Jovian tendency, moving retrograde even though its orbit overlaps that of the far-off retrograde moons.

Valetudo is thought by some astronomers to be the remains of a bigger object that once tore through Jupiter’s retrograde moon clusters like a wrecking ball. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that swimming upstream improves your chances of running into someone.


TOPICS: Astronomy; History; Outdoors; Science; UFO's
KEYWORDS: astronomy; braking; jovianmoons; jupiter; moons; science; xplanets
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To: dangus

what I don’t understand is why all those rocks around saturn don’t combine into a single mass? What’s keeping them apart?


21 posted on 02/10/2023 12:17:13 PM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. https://youtu.be/VexKSRKoWQY)
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To: Red Badger
🚨BREAKING🚨: Astronomers Just Discovered 12 New Moons Orbiting Jupiter

One could be Elon's Tesla.

22 posted on 02/10/2023 12:26:28 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Ultra MAGA in Biden's Post Constitutional United Socialist States of Amerika!)
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To: Karma_Sherab

23 posted on 02/10/2023 12:29:06 PM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: Red Badger

That’s no moon!


24 posted on 02/10/2023 12:31:38 PM PST by mykroar (what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. - J0eStalin)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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25 posted on 02/10/2023 12:42:30 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: Colt1851Navy

There are moons out tonite.

https://youtu.be/P4xNF9uh8SA


26 posted on 02/10/2023 12:44:32 PM PST by stylin19a (Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?)
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To: Tell It Right

M1A2


27 posted on 02/10/2023 12:44:58 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: redshawk
If you are referring to the material in the rings, I think they may have been broken up by Saturn's gravity, or were unable to form into a larger body because of that gravity.

Who knows how many moons Saturn has in all? 20 of the 83 were found in one year, 2019. They all have their own orbits and there is a lot of space out there so they are unlikely to collide. Many of Jupiter's smaller moons are thought to be captured asteroids and the same may be true of some of Saturn's.

Venus is almost as large as the earth and has no satellites. It's unfair for the gas giants to hog most of the moons.

28 posted on 02/10/2023 12:59:47 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Red Badger

So...
All this time Jupiter has been mooning us and we didn’t even realize it?


29 posted on 02/10/2023 1:11:58 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: Disambiguator

That’s why I’m here! I have a special fondness for rapidly deteriorating threads.


30 posted on 02/10/2023 1:12:12 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: SuperLuminal

What else is out there they are not telling us about?.........................🤔


31 posted on 02/10/2023 1:13:49 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Golden Eagle

That was a decent movie. Not great, but decent.

L


32 posted on 02/10/2023 1:23:22 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Good film!


33 posted on 02/10/2023 1:51:54 PM PST by Reily
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To: Red Badger

With the advent of these 12 previously undiscovered moons ...


they aren’t moons ...


34 posted on 02/10/2023 2:05:06 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Verginius Rufus

What’s really unfair is the Earth has the largest moon in the solar system.

Venus hardest hit.


35 posted on 02/10/2023 2:06:58 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: bitt

In other words, scientists, whatever the field, are NOT all knowing. And in the science field, a lot of what they write/say is fraudulent. I read about 50%. Made up, exaggerated, etc. They are not gods.


36 posted on 02/10/2023 2:54:43 PM PST by little jeremiah (Never worry about anything. Worry never solved any problem or moved any stone.)
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To: Red Badger

So, I guess ‘settled science’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.


37 posted on 02/10/2023 2:58:40 PM PST by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: PIF
Actually Ganymede is larger than the earth's moon, and is the largest moon in the solar system.

The moon is not even the largest satellite relative to its planet--that honor goes to Charon, the largest of Pluto's five known satellites.

38 posted on 02/10/2023 5:15:04 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Red Badger
There are actually more than 168,000 moons orbiting Jupiter.

We just haven't discovered them all yet.

39 posted on 02/10/2023 5:20:17 PM PST by SamAdams76 (4,895,899 Truth | 87,656,930 Twitter)
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