... Jupiter, actually... well, one of the moons." . Good: . This one they got right. ... Jupiter has the small problem of lacking a solid surface. But the moons.. ... Europa is an iceball moon orbiting Jupiter, and it looks pretty certain that ...
... Jupiter called Europa, and when I was covering the Voyager story out at JPL in the Summer of 1980, actually the Spring of 1979 and the Winter of 1980, we flew this extraordinary spacecraft, NASA did, by Jupiter for the first time and encountered the four ...
... is that in April 1996, the comet passed less than 72 million miles from Jupiter ... That may sound like a long way, but Jupiter is a really massive planet. ... The long reach of mighty Jupiter's gravity is what bent Hale-Bopp's orbit, not any ...
... Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the Last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as 60,000 years before it happens again. ...
... Comets hit the Earth sometimes too, but you won't find too many people happy to see that-- a comet hit Jupiter in 1994 and the ensuing explosion was equivalent to 600 times the entire Earth's nuclear arsenal! ...
... But keep this in mind: this is counting asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, and there is about one quintillion square kilometers of room out there for these rocks to roam in, or a billion square kilometers per asteroid. ...