ASTRO-110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: The Moons, Methane Clathrate, Galilean Moons
18 Sep 2020
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The satellites of great interest are those of the jovian planets. In particular we will examine the major satellites (diameter greater than 1000km) of which jupiter has four, Turn to table e-3 in the back of your textbook and identify the major satellites of. Jupiter - io, europa, ganymede, and callisto. Saturn - tethys, dione, titan, rhea, and iapetus. Uranus - ariel, umbriel, titania and oberon. Galileo discovered the four major satellites of jupiter in 1610 and called them the. "medici stars" in honour of his patrons the ruling family of milan. Their discovery was a major step in galileo"s dismantling of the. Aristotelian view of the universe that required everything to revolve about one centre (the. Here were four objects that revolved about another centre, i. e. , jupiter. Saturn"s largest satellite, titan, was discovered by huygens in 1655 and is named for one of the giants that ruled the world before the coming of the gods of olympus.
