Jupiter's New Moons

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HankR

Jupiter's New Moons

Post #1by HankR » 07.03.2003, 04:41

University of Hawaii astronomers have announced the discovery of 8 new satellites of Jupiter, bringing the total of known Jupiter satellites to 48.

Here's a nice article on the new discoveries:
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article392.html

Data for the new (and old) moons is here:
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~sheppard/sat ... tdata.html

- Hank

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