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Six more moons spotted orbiting Jupiter

CNN.com Saturday, April 5, 2003

Okay, enough already. Don't you hate self-important planets that flaunt their moons just because they happen to be the biggest in the solar system? I mean there are other planets out their with moons...hello?!? Jupiter is always bragging about its new moons. Two new moons discovered, one more moon discovered...whoops! Did I say one? I meant six!

What do you name the moons of a planet that has everything? Or other heavenly bodies?

Current Moons of Jupiter:
Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto (inter alia)

New Moons:
BIOS
Hisanus
Heranus
Myanus
Myneck
Myback
Runnymede
Europa-Union
North-America
Pamela-Anderson
Calisto-Flockharto

― Skottie, Sunday, 6 April 2003 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Jupiter now boasts 58 natural satellites, more than any other planet.
Greedy Planet
http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/TECH/space/04/05/jupiter.moons.ap/story.jupiter.jpg

― Skottie, Sunday, 6 April 2003 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

not to mention...

Harvest
Silvery &
Crescent

― Skottie, Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, you all know that Jupiter has got an absolutely enormous...

...gravitational pull.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

Somehow, I thought this one had promise...

― Skottie, Monday, 1 September 2003 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently when Galileo discovered the first 4 his work was being financed by the wealthy Medici family and so he named the moons the Medician Stars in their honour. However, as all previous objects in the solar system had been named after characters from classical mythology, it was unsurprising that this name didn't last.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 1 September 2003 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Sun Young Moon

― Skottie, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

doesn't he play for Man City?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

hello,
what is the latest about heveanly bodies pls. answer emiditly

― bridgette anne f. alfonso, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

they're still up there.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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