jupiter has three moons in its orbit.
jupiter has three moons in its orbit.
how many moons does jupiter have in its orbit?
three
"translation" : (4) however, the credibility of this [argument] is proved by the comparison of the four [moons] of jupiter and jupiter with the six planets and the sun. because, regarding the body of jupiter, whether it turns around its axis, we don't have proofs for what suffices for us [regarding the rotation of ] the body of the earth and especially of the sun, certainly [as reason proves to us]: but reason attests that, just as it is clearly [true] among the six planets around the sun, so also it is among the four [moons] of jupiter, because around the body of jupiter any [satellite] that can go farther from it orbits slower, and even that [orbit's period] is not in the same proportion, but greater [than the distance from jupiter]; that is, 3/2 ("sescupla" ) of the proportion of each of the distances from jupiter, which is clearly the very [proportion] as [is used for] the six planets above. in his [book] "the world of jupiter" ["mundus jovialis", 1614], [simon] mayr [1573-1624] presents these distances, from jupiter, of the four [moons] of jupiter: 3, 5, 8, 13 (or 14 [according to] galileo) … mayr presents their time periods: 1 day 18 1/2 hours, 3 days 13 1/3 hours, 7 days 3 hours, 16 days 18 hours: for all [of these data] the proportion is greater than double, thus greater than [the proportion] of the distances 3, 5, 8, 13 or 14, although less than [the proportion] of the squares, which double the proportions of the distances, namely 9, 25, 64, 169 or 196, just as [a factor of] 3/2 is also greater than 1 but less than 2.
godefroy wendelin
in 2016, the "juno" spacecraft imaged the galilean moons from above their orbital plane as it approached jupiter orbit insertion, creating a time-lapse movie of their motion.









































section::::see also.









































bullet::::- jupiter's moons in fiction









































bullet::::- galilean moons









































bullet::::- jupiter trojan









































section::::external links.









































bullet::::- jupiter's known satellites









































bullet::::- the jupiter satellite and moon page









































bullet::::- simulation showing the position of jupiter's moons









































bullet::::- animated tour of jupiter's moons, university of south wales









































bullet::::- jupiter:moons by nasa's solar system exploration









































bullet::::- archive of jupiter system articles in planetary science research discoveries









































bullet::::- an animation of the jovian system of moons
moons of jupiter