Jupiter`s Galilean Moons

Jupiter • Largest planet (1300 Earths would fit inside!!! • 2.5x the gravity than on Earth • Jupiter radiates more energy into space than it receives from the Sun http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0212/jupiterIo_cassini_full.jpg

Jupiter’s Galilean Moons

Developed by Barbara J. Shaw

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00343

Jupiter’s Galilean Moons

http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/niel/astro1/slideshows/class41/010-jupiter-galilean-moons.jpg

Size in Relationship to Jupiter

http://www.carinasoft.com/voyager4/info/images/ThreeMoonsOnJupiter.jpg

Size Compared to Earth

http://homepages.wmich.edu/%7Ekorista/ss-images/solarsys_compsizes.jpg

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Now you predict Night 10

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Can you place each moon in orbit around Jupiter?

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http://www.ox.ac.uk/images/maincolumn/257_Jupiter_from_Cassini.jpg

Answer Callisto

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Io

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Stopped by a cop • He said, “Do you know how fast you are going?” • I replied, “That, sir, is relative…”

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/957/90054129.JPG

How Fast? • I was driving 55 miles per hour, but…

http://www.zenconsulting.net/jasonkehr/images/T1000.jpg

How Fast? • The Earth, at the equator, rotating on it’s axis – 1,040 miles per hour – In Portland, roughly 520 mile per hour

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0703/bluemarble_apollo17_big.jpg

How Fast? • The Earth revolving around the sun – 67,000 miles per hour

http://www.ecology.com/archived-links/earths-orbit/index_files/earthorbit.gif

How Fast? • The Sun revolving around the Milky Way Galaxy – 486,000 miles per hour

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap011004.html

How Fast? • The Milky Way Galaxy moving with the local cluster towards the constellation Hydra – 1,340,000 miles per hour

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020123.html

How Fast? • So, Officer, it is all relative, and 55 is insignificant! – I still got the ticket…

http://www.rps.psu.edu/probing/graphics/light.jpg