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A montage of Jupiter and its four largest moons (distance and sizes not to scale) There are 95 moons of Jupiter with confirmed orbits as of 5 February 2024. [1] [note 1] This number does not include a number of meter-sized moonlets thought to be shed from the inner moons, nor hundreds of possible kilometer-sized outer irregular moons that were only briefly captured by telescopes. [4]
From top to bottom: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto. The Galilean moons (/ ˌɡælɪˈleɪ.ən /), [1] or Galilean satellites, are the four largest moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. They are the most readily visible Solar System objects after Saturn, the dimmest of the classical planets; though their closeness to bright ...
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IAU Names - 20th century Date Name Image Planet/Number Designation Discovery date References/Notes 7 October 1975: Himalia: Jupiter VI: 1904: IAUC 2846: Satellites of Jupiter. Also confirmed the name Amalthea. Elara: Jupiter VII: 1905 Pasiphaë: Jupiter VIII: 1908 Sinope: Jupiter IX: 1914 Lysithea: Jupiter X: 1938 Carme: Jupiter XI Ananke ...
The prograde satellites consist of the Himalia group and three others in groups of one. The retrograde moons are grouped into the Carme, Ananke and Pasiphae groups. Saturn has 146 moons with known orbits; 66 of them have received permanent designations, and 63 have been named. Most of them are quite small. Seven moons are large enough to be in ...
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were identified by ancient Babylonian astronomers in the 2nd millennium BC. [7] They were correctly identified as orbiting the Sun by Aristarchus of Samos, and later in Nicolaus Copernicus ' heliocentric system [8] (De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, 1543) Venus. 2nd Planet.
Thebe (moon) Image of Thebe taken by the Galileo spacecraft on 4 January 2000. The large crater near the center is Zethus. Thebe / ˈθiːbiː /, also known as Jupiter XIV, is the fourth of Jupiter's moons by distance from the planet. It was discovered by Stephen P. Synnott in images from the Voyager 1 space probe taken on March 5, 1979, while ...
The dates of the 12 full moons of 2024 and the meaning of their names, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.