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	Iocaste (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iocaste (eye'-ə-kas'-tee, IPA: [ˌaɪəˈkæsti]; Greek Ιοκάστη), or Jupiter XXIV, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.
		Iocaste orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 20,723 Mm in 609.427 days, at an inclination of 147° to the ecliptic (127° to Jupiter's equator) with an eccentricity of 0.2874.
		Iocaste belongs to the Ananke group, believed to be the remnants of a break-up of a captured heliocentric asteroid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iocaste_(moon) (256 words)

	Natural satellite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Most moons are assumed to have been formed out of the same collapsing region of protoplanetary disk that gave rise to its primary.
		Several moons are thought to be captured foreign objects, fragments of larger moons shattered by large impacts, or (in the case of Earth's Moon) a portion of the planet itself blasted into orbit by a large impact.
		Most moons in the solar system are tidally locked to their primaries; an exception is Saturn's moon Hyperion, which rotates chaotically due to a variety of external influences.
	www.casimiro.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/n/na/natural_satellite.html (366 words)

	Astronomy Answers: Universe Family Tree: Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The distribution of the known moons over the planets is shown in the following table, which also displays for each planet the last year of the discovery of a moon (per 2006-05-25).
		If a certain planet has none of its moons in the top ten, then the moon from that planet that has the characteristic the most is also mentioned in the table.
		This table shows the moons that are on average the furthest from or the closest to the center of their planet, measured in units of 1000 km.
	www.astro.uu.nl /~strous/AA/en/boom/maan.html (872 words)

	Space Today Online - Exploring Jupiter System - Jupiter's many moons
		The numerous small outer moons — which may be asteroids captured by the giant planet's gravity — hardly resemble the Galilean satellites.
		The moons travel in clusters and may well be pieces of larger objects that shattered in collisions with passing comets.
		Amalthea was the last moon to be discovered by direct visual observation — as opposed to photography — when it was spotted in 1892 by Edward Emerson Barnard using the 36 inch telescope at Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in California.
	www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/Jupiter/JupiterMoons.html (2570 words)

	Space Today Online - Moons of the Solar System
		The Moon is one of the larger natural satellites with a diameter of 2,160 miles.
		The moons are 120,000 miles and 131,000 miles from the center of planet Saturn between the moons Mimas and Enceladus.
		The smallest moon is Deimos, at Mars, only seven miles in diameter, although its size now is rivaled by the small shepherd moons discovered by Cassini at Saturn and by others yet to be counted and named in the rings around Jupiter, Saturn and other giant gas planets in the outer Solar System.
	www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/Moons/MoonsSolSys.html (1335 words)

	NASA's Solar System Exploration: Planets: Jupiter: Moons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Io, innermost of the Galilean satellites and slightly larger that Earth's moon, goes through even greater gravitational flexing, with "tides" of as much as 100 meters (328 feet) in its solid rock surface.
		Ganymede is the biggest moon in the solar system and, in fact, is larger than the planets Mercury and Pluto.
		Callisto, about the size of Mercury, is the third largest moon in the solar system (Saturn's Titan is #2) and is the outermost of the Galilean satellites.
	www.ulo.ucl.ac.uk /~diploma/year_one/NASA_SSE/jupiter_moons.html (608 words)

	The Stars and Scopes Glossary
		A moon of Jupiter was discovered by Charles Perrine at the Lick Observatory on December 3, 1904.
		A moon of Uranus was discovered by Brett J. Gladman, Philip D. Nicholson, Joseph A. Burns, and John J. Kavelaars using the 200-inch Hale telescope on September 6, 1997.
		A moon of the planet Pluto, also known as Pluto I. Charon is the largest of Pluto's Moons and was discovered in 1978 by James Christy.
	starsandscopes.net /glossary.php?class=Moon (5531 words)

	The Stars and Scopes Glossary: API Developer Reference Page
		The shape of the lit portion of the moon or a planetary disk where the lit portion of the disk is less than half the disk surface.
		For the week between the New Moon and the First Quarter Moon the sunlit side of the Moon grows as a waxing (growing) crescent until the disk of the Moon is half lit.
		The week between the Full Moon and the Last Quarter Moon the sunlit side of the Moon is called waning (shrinking) gibbous and is shrinking until the lunar disk is half in sunlight and half in shadow.
	starsandscopes.net /reference.php (9925 words)

	The Moons of the Solar System — Iocaste (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The moon of Jupiter –; Iocaste (XXIV) – was previously temporarily designated as S/2000 J3.
		In reward he got to marry Iocaste and was crowned by her brother to become the new King of Thebes.
		Iocaste killed herself in shame and Oedipus blinded himself and went into exile as a pauper.
	republika.pl /ksiezyce/jupiter/iocaste_en.html (612 words)

	On This and Other Moons
		If the sizes of the moons are expressed relative to their primary (the planet they orbit) there are still more surprises.
		Being close to Jupiter (it is the innermost of the Galilean moons) the planet's massive gravity stretches the moon by some 100m and locks its rotation so the same side always faces the planet.
		For instance, the moons of Jupiter are named after the lovers and descendants of the ancient Greek god Zeus, hence S/2000 J3 is now known as Iocaste.
	www.inconstantmoon.com /cyc_moon.htm (1127 words)

	Jupiter's natural satellites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first moons of Jupiter to be discovered were the large Galilean moons, discovered by Galileo in 1610.
		Moons massive enough for their surfaces to have collapsed into a spheroid are highlighted in blue; these are the "Galilean Moons", which are comparable in size to Earth's moon.
		Those contrasting pairs are the moon Ganymede and the asteroid 1036 Ganymed; and the moon Callisto and the asteroid 204 Kallisto.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jupiter's_natural_satellites (1209 words)

	Jupiter's Moons
		Callisto, the outermost of the Galilean moons, is almost an exact twin of Mercury in size and appearance.
		The outer 33 moons all orbit Jupiter in a direction opposite (except for J/2003 J20) to that which Jupiter spins, which leads scientists to believe they are captured asteroids.
		Nearly all of the moons that have been discovered in the last few years orbit retrograde to the direction of Jupiter's rotation, indicating that they are most likely not native to the system.
	filer.case.edu /~sjr16/jupiter_moons.html (550 words)

	Inconstant Moon News
		Two of the moons, Puck and Portia, are so small that they were only discovered by the flyby of the Voyager 2 space probe in 1985-6.
		The high tides will occur because the combined gravitational pull of the Sun and the Moon, which is at its most effective at the time of the new or full moon when they align with the Earth, is further enhanced by a close approach of the Moon to the Earth.
		In an attempt to reconcile the generally accepted evidence that the Moon has a small metallic core with the seismic indications that its core has a density too low for a primarily iron composition, Mark Wieczorek and Maria Zuber of MIT suggest that a core of molten titanium-rich silicates could provide a solution.
	www.inconstantmoon.com /news02.htm (1546 words)

	Natural satellite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moons orbiting relatively close to the planet on prograde orbits (regular satellites) are believed to have been formed out of the same collapsing region of protoplanetary disk that gave rise to its primary.
		Most regular moons in the solar system are tidally locked to their primaries, meaning that one side of the moon is always turned toward the planet.
		In addition to the moons of the various planets there are also over 80 known moons of the dwarf planets, asteroids and other small solar system bodies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Natural_satellite (1490 words)

	Wikinfo \| Natural satellite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The term moon (never capitalized) is used to mean any natural satellite of the other planets.
		There are, at least, 102 moons within Earth's solar system, and presumably many others orbiting the planets of other stars.
		The recent discovery of Ida's moon Dactyl confirms that some asteroids also have moons.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Natural_satellite (426 words)

	Jupiter's new moons get mythical monickers
		The names announced by the Paris-based International Astronomical Union (IAU) are drawn from the entourage of Zeus, the paramount god in Greek mythology, whose equivalent for the ancient Romans was Jupiter, also called Jove.
		As Zeus had a long list of amorous conquests, it was quite easy to baptise new moons as they were gradually identified over the centuries.
		The Pleiades were virgins who, according to rival myths, were changed by Zeus into doves, and then stars, to prevent them being ravished by the hunter Orion or alternatively committed suicide after their death of their sisters, the Hyades.
	www.spacedaily.com /2002/021205201933.zfnz90bc.html (366 words)

	Jupiter's Moons - Explore the Cosmos \| The Planetary Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		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.
	www.planetary.org /explore/topics/jupiter/moons.html (763 words)

	Astrology of Unconventional Planets
		Jupiter's Moons -- As of 2005 Jupiter was known to have 63 satellites.
		The type of orbits of the outer moons suggests that they were once asteroids or fragments of larger bodies smashed by asteroids or comets.
		JULIET, Moon of Uranus -- The name "Juliet" is a feminine form of "Helios", remeniscent of Romeo's saying "It is the East, and Juliet is the Sun".
	erikthevermilion.com /unconventional.planets.htm (1856 words)

	Jupiter
		Ganymede, the next moon, is the largest moon in the solar system, and is in fact larger than the planet Mercury.
		The moons of Jupiter formed in such a way as to mimic the formation of the solar system.
		The small rocky moons formed towards the interior of the planetary nebula and the larger, lighter moons formed further out.
	www.astromax.com /planets/jupiter.htm (807 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 322 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Greek legend of lo's going to Egypt is probably to be explained by her having been identified with the Egyptian goddess Isis, who is always represented with cow's horns.
		lo (" the wanderer ") is generally explained as a moon-goddess wandering in the starry heavens, symbolized by Argus of the hundred eyes; her transformation into a horned heifer represents the crescent moon.
		A king of Lycia, father of Anteia, and son-in-law of Prcatus, king of Tiryns, by whom he was commissioned to kill Bellerophon (q.v.).
	www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0325.html (853 words)

	Planet Jupiter - Moons of the Solar Sytem
		Jupiter has 64 known moons, 14 of which have been discovered and yet unamed since 2000.
		A moon of Jupiter was discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610.
		A moon of Jupiter was discovered by Scott S. Sheppard, David Jewitt and team in 2003.
	planet-jupiter.net /index.php?document_id=600 (2074 words)

	How many moons does Jupiter have?
		When a scientist makes observations which indicate a new moon, they submit their data and analysis to the scientific community.
		Finally, at one of their meetings, the scientific membership of the IAU votes on whether or not to accept the object and its name as an "official moon" of the planet.
		Of the 23 new moons announced for Jupiter, preliminary names were assigned to 11 of them by the IAU in October 2002.
	starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov /docs/StarChild/questions/question51.html (412 words)

	Many Moons — FactMonster.com
		When the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth, its sunlit side is turned away from the Earth and we say there is no Moon.
		When the Earth is between the Sun and Moon, we can see the entire sunlit side of the Moon and call it a full Moon.
		The newer moons were named after members of the god Jupiter's (Zeus to the Greeks) entourage, among them: Themisto, Iocaste, Harpalyke, Praxidike, Taygete, Chaldene, Kalyke, Callirrhoe, Megaclite, Isonoe, and Erinome.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0769186.html (561 words)

	NASA's Solar System Exploration: Planets: Jupiter: Overview
		Galileo would be astonished at what we have learned about Jupiter and its moons in the past 30 years.
		Ganymede is the largest planetary moon and is the only moon in the solar system known to have its own magnetic field.
		The numerous small outer moons may be asteroids captured by the giant planet's gravity.
	solarsystem.nasa.gov /planets/profile.cfm?Object=Jupiter&Display=Moons (234 words)

	Colonization
		Moons (Somebody said the moon couldn't be colonized due to the lack of soil on it.
		For Jupiter, for example, I am using a 43,441 mile radius, of which about 4,000 miles of which is believed to be a rocky core and 35,000 miles of which is believed to be liquid hydrogen in the main.
		Say you did colonize a lot of things in space (Planets, moons, etc) and these colonies were as advanced as the ones on Earth and could communicate back and forth between Earth, etc.
	www.physicsforums.com /showthread.php?t=76711 (2452 words)

	Jocasta - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In Greek mythology, Jocasta, also Iocaste (Iοκαστη) or Epikastê, was a daughter of Menocenes, Queen of Thebes, who unwittingly married Oedipus, her own son.
		In astronomy, Iocaste is the name of a small moon of the planet Jupiter.
		In the Marvel Universe, Jocasta is a superheroine.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Jocasta (286 words)

	jupiter's moons
		13) The 4 moons closest to Jupiter are, as you can see in the table, small.
		Jupiter's Roche Limit, the closest distance that a body held together by its own gravitation can come to it without breaking up, is about 170,000 km.
		When several numbers are given for diameter, it means that the moon is not spherical and these are its dimensions.
	www.gpc.edu /~fbuls/weblabs/moons/moons22.htm (581 words)

	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.
		After Laius was killed, Iocaste unknowingly married her own son Oedipus.
	planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov /append7.html (3090 words)

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