4 new moons of Jupiter discovered

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4 new moons of Jupiter discovered

Post #1by JackHiggins » 14.03.2003, 22:52

The discovery of another 4 moons of Jupiter has been announced in the last few days, bringing the total to 52!!!

The new moons are S/2003 J9, S/2003 J10, S/2003 J11, S/2003 J12. I've added them into celestia; here is the ssc file to install them:

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"S/2003 J9" "Sol/Jupiter"
{
   Class "moon"
   Texture "asteroid.jpg"
   Mesh "asteroid.cms"
   Radius 0.5

   EllipticalOrbit
   {
   Epoch 2452800.5
   Period 684.05
   SemiMajorAxis 22441680
   Eccentricity 0.2687371
   Inclination 164.45956
   MeanAnomaly 224.82724
   AscendingNode 61.46531
   ArgOfPericenter 327.84527
   }

   RotationPeriod 10.0
   Albedo 0.04
}

"S/2003 J10" "Sol/Jupiter"
{
   Class "moon"
   Texture "asteroid.jpg"
   Mesh "asteroid.cms"
   Radius 1

   EllipticalOrbit
   {
   Epoch 2452800.5
   Period 768.36
   SemiMajorAxis 24249600
   Eccentricity 0.2137608
   Inclination 164.09424
   MeanAnomaly 180.39316
   AscendingNode 173.40546
   ArgOfPericenter 185.19980
   }

   RotationPeriod 10.0
   Albedo 0.04
}

"S/2003 J11" "Sol/Jupiter"
{
   Class "moon"
   Texture "asteroid.jpg"
   Mesh "asteroid.cms"
   Radius 1

   EllipticalOrbit
   {
   Epoch 2452800.5
   Period 681.94
   SemiMajorAxis 22395390
   Eccentricity 0.2233774
   Inclination 163.86678
   MeanAnomaly 318.50709
   AscendingNode 40.64628
   ArgOfPericenter 17.05105
   }

   RotationPeriod 10.0
   Albedo 0.04
}

"S/2003 J12" "Sol/Jupiter"
{
   Class "moon"
   Texture "asteroid.jpg"
   Mesh "asteroid.cms"
   Radius 0.5

   EllipticalOrbit
   {
   Epoch 2452800.5
   Period 532.99
   SemiMajorAxis 19002480
   Eccentricity 0.3759365
   Inclination 145.75566
   MeanAnomaly 229.11535
   AscendingNode 62.93716
   ArgOfPericenter 23.36186
   }

   RotationPeriod 10.0
   Albedo 0.04
}


And, heres a picture of Jupiter with ALL its 52 moons!! (Its a big picture so be patient...)
Image
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