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The German astronomer Simon Marius claimed to have seen the moons around the same time, but he did not publish his observations and so Galileo is given the credit for their discovery.
This moon intrigues astrobiologists because of its potential for having a 'habitable zone.' Life forms have been found thriving near subterranean volcanoes on Earth and in other extreme locations that may be analogues to what may exist on Europa.
Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system (larger than the planet Mercury), and is the only moon known to have its own internally generated magnetic field.
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 Lost Continent of Atlantis: Myth or Reality? (Chapter VI: Are The Old Texts Just Stories?)
Helike was lift up due to the 'general uplifting of the land'.
Helike did not involve itself in any turbulences and tried to maintain good collaboration with the neighbors.
The sinking of Helike is the perfect opportunity to make a moral and philosophical statement, by bringing up a lost story, that took place so many years ago.
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 The Moons of the Solar System — Helike
The moon of Jupiter –; Helike (XLV) – was previously temporarily designated as S/2003 J6.
    Helike is one of seven new satellites discovered since the →Voyager-2 Jupiter system fly-by which occured 24 years ago (1979).
    The moon is in elliptical retrograde orbit (→eccentricity e = 0.1506) with a →semimajor axis a = 21,069,000 km.
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 Astronomy Answers: From the Astronomical Dictionary
A moon of 4 km diameter at about 21,263,000 km from the planet Jupiter.
The gravity at its surface is about 0.0002 times as strong as on Earth.
The moon goes once around its planet in about 633.3 days.
www.astro.uu.nl /~strous/cgi-bin/glossary.cgi?l=en&o=Helike   (64 words)

  
 Jupiter's Moons - Explore the Cosmos | The Planetary Society
Among all other moons in the solar system, only Titan, Triton, and Earth’s Moon are comparable in size to these four.
Oddly, Jupiter does not have the cluster of medium-sized moons that Saturn and Uranus possess.
Here, the moons are shown at the same scale of 2 kilometers per pixel.
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 Moons of the Solar System - Explore the Cosmos | The Planetary Society
A whirlwind of "new moon" discoveries have kept teachers, textbooks, and web sites scrambling to keep up.
In an effort to set the record straight, listed below are the number of known moons in our solar system as of July 2006.
Follow the links below to find out more about the moons in the solar system that have been given names, or visit our news archives to find out the details of the discoveries of the new moons.
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 Helike | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
IPA // or //; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was an ancient Greek city that sank in the winter of 373 BC at night.
Dora Katsonopoulou, President of the Helike Society, and Dr. Steven Soter of the American Museum of Natural History rediscovered the city in the summer 2001, near the village of Rizomylos.
The World Monuments Fund included Helike in its 2004 List of 100 Most Endangered Sites in an effort to protect the site from destruction.
www.babylon.com /definition/Helike   (139 words)

  
 The Puzzle That Is The Atlantis Enigma - Education Article
Although theorists rage back and forth, there was one event during Plato’s lifetime that might have given rise to the basis for the Atlantis story.
It is unlikely since Helike was a basic Greek city.
The Man Who Brought America to the Moon By : K.Z. On October 4, 1957, Russia launches the first artificial satellite in history - Sputnik.
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 USGS Astrogeology: Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature - Planetary Body Names and Discoverers
Every civilization has had a name for the satellite of Earth that is known, in English, as the Moon.
The Moon is known as Luna in Italian, Latin, and Spanish, as Lune in French, as Mond in German, and as Selene in Greek.
Named by the Romans for their god of war because of its red, bloodlike color.
planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov /append7.html   (3277 words)

  
 AUM~Sparky's Amazing Ancients : Archaeology & Alternative Prehistoty!
Ad Quadratum, the Sacred Cut, & Roman Architecture
Lost Eliki (Helike, Helice) - first place among the cities of Achaia
Underwater surveyors say they may have found sunken city
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