Why Jupiter Has So Many Moons
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2018
- Our solar system is already teaming with nearly 200 moons, and we just got 12 more to add to the list. A team led by astronomer Scott Sheppard out of the Carnegie Institution for Science discovered the moons in 2017 using one of the most powerful digital cameras in the world, the Dark Energy Camera. And after follow-up observations, they've confirmed that Jupiter has even more moons than we thought. And these new moons point to a violent and destructive past.
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There are nearly 200 moons in our solar system. And more than a third of those belong to a single planet: Jupiter. Jupiter has the most moons of any other planet. And if that’s not enough astronomers recently discovered 12 new ones to add to the list.
Scott Sheppard: “Jupiter now has 79 known moons in the solar system.”
That’s Scott Sheppard. He’s an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science who spends his time searching for new objects in our solar system. Already, he and his team have discovered evidence of a potential planet beyond Pluto called Planet Nine. And now, 12 new moons of Jupiter including the weirdest one yet.
Scott Sheppard: “We believe these objects were probably captured by Jupiter a long time ago and they are grouped in their orbits.”
Jupiter’s moons are sort of like opposite lanes on a highway. Two of the new moons are in a group that orbit in the same direction as Jupiter’s rotation called the prograde group. While nine of the other moons orbit in the opposite direction, farther out in the retrograde group.
And each moon stays in its respective lane. Except for the last moon. It’s a rebel. It orbits in the same direction as Jupiter’s spin, similar to the first two new moons. But it’s not part of the same group. Instead, its path takes it into the realm of the nine moons that orbit in the opposite direction.
Scott Sheppard: “So it’s basically going down the highway in the opposite direction, so it’s like going against traffic. And that makes it a very unstable situation.”
Sheppard suspects that situations like this have happened in the past. Which helps explain why Jupiter has so many moons in the first place. Its powerful gravitational pull allows it to capture large passing objects that then collide with each other, forming dozens of new, smaller moons.
Scott Sheppard: “It’s been about a decade since the last moons around Jupiter were discovered. The new ones were found because technology has gotten better and better over the years. We’re using the most advanced digital cameras in the world … And we’re going a little deeper than in the past as well. So that’s why we’re able to find these new moons.”
The moons are too small to see with the average telescope - measuring only a few kilometers in size. It took one of the most powerful digital cameras in the world - the Dark Energy Camera - to spot them. Now, all that’s left is to name the new moons.
Sheppard and his team already proposed a name for the rebel moon. “Valetudo” - after the great-granddaughter of the Roman god Jupiter - also known as the goddess of health and hygiene. For the other 11 moons, Sheppard said they might let the public help out. 
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The Jupiter system seems like a solar system by its own
It would need its own star to be a solar system
Did you know that Jupiter is a fallen star?
Damien Reed. Ikr, around like 90% of its composition matches the sun
well,, jupiter is a fail star in the beggining... so yeah
They even said that jupiter isnt only orbiting our sun, but orbits more stars
Imagine our night sky with 79 moons
That would be some silly shit
Insane
Everybody watching the moon SHALL MELT
Oh god we wouldn’t see the sun, ever
IndigoBoo stfu
Mooney McMoonface.
Some Guy
how did i expect to see this
It needs to be a name for a moon
I was thinking the exact same thing 😂😂😂
I like it!
Some Guy lol
I hope they don’t. Let us vote online. That would degrade society tbh
Oh no, I think Jupiter may be mooning us...
Maybe...
more moons = more to study
we’ll be learning about the 192 moons of jupiter
More planets and more moons and more stars = more homework and more school time
Look at the bright side! Robots are going to destroy humanity soon so all you need to learn about is how to handle a gun although it'll probably be useless :)
DANDAN THE DANDAN soon... if it happends it will happen probably in a looong time just search robot fail compilation and you know enough xD
welp did you know that moons are actually called satellites?
So new places to mine in the future? Excellent.
What ok
That's actually really good, yes.
And accessories and other gadgets will become cheaper. YES
Maybe a new element will appear that makes anything Virtual a Reality!
like your waifu
If you are reading this, have a nice day!
TheProMinecraft 49 i counted 26, I’m confused
no day is a good day for me, its all pain and suffering
SweetTea well I'm sorry about that.
Yay \(°O°)/
Thanks, you too!
Name one moon after me.
SillyTube maybe
You can legally do that if you discover it
wow it can’t be sillytube
Navigation gonna named after me.
SillyTube jerkoff
Wtf how did no one notice the 12 new moons?!
Derek Gaming Because space is unbelieveably huge and these moons are extremely small in comparison.
ViCk GaMer got Em
Did you watch the video? Explaining that is most of the video.
These satellites are only a few kilometers in radius and reflect an extremely low amount of light. Jupiter most likely has dozens more undiscovered satellites that happen to evade detection for the reasons above.
"Wtf how did you not notice that tiny ant in Ohio from aboard the ISS" would be a similar question
Congrats to Jupiter..
Thanks, earthling!
Jupiter 😂😂😂😂
Jupiter congrats you have alot of moons
Lol
So all this time researching ... We didnt find new moon in jupiter and suddenly they found 12?! 12?! Not even 1 by one
ava Maybe they found them one by one. They might've just released the information to the public, because 12 moons on the spot seems like bigger news than finding them one by one over the timespan of, idk, 5 years or so.
ЕЛ_ Гертруде owh got it XD
ЕЛ_ Гертруде Actually, uh...
No.
RuleEmpire That was just a theory (insert shitty game theory joke here)
Or is it?
*VSauce music plays.*
Make an online poll for the moon names and leave it up to 4chan
DO NOT
This is an Incredible Discovery, this gives us more to explore as we go deeper into space. Great Find.
‘Hela’ , ‘Halo’ be the two names for two new moons!
Rebel moon name - Kronos
But why, Kronos is the god of time, and attempted to kill Neptune, Pluto, and Jupiter.
Trevor N Chronos not Kronos is the personification of time. Kronos, or Cronus, was the king of the Titans and ruler of the universe before he was overthrown by Zeus (Jupiter) and the other gods you mentioned.
Advait Shirbhayye Saturn = Kronos....
thesleepingsoter that’s why it makes it so “unfitting” such a great name would only be given to a planet which was done when they named Saturn. Moons take names of minor mythological figures.
thesleepingsoter American School system at its finest. But hey we sure know what the powerhouse of the cell is. :)
I would name the rebel moon Jynerso
Star Wars?
It was named Valetudo.
Actually 69 + 10 = 79
So 10 new moons are discovered in Jupiter
Ask the internet to name the moons, prepare for some weird ass suggestions
I’ve been thinking about Jupiter to get a 70th moon before the decade is out
Neptune 165
it doesnt GET a new moon in the next decade. We will FIND them
Kratos is a good name
To the "rebel moon"? Yes. I agree.
Yeah I will call it kratos
You humans call it whatever you like
Kratos and boy
God of Moon? Kratos got nothing on the roman mythology.
God's Soulja and name the smallest one Boi 😂
I was recently in germany and had a gotten a great view of jupiter and asked what id jupiter had more moons than we know
CoyoteNova If you live in the US it is the second brightest thing in the sky, aside from Venus. Venus sets early though so if you look up at around 10 pm you can probably spot Jupiter!
Mk
CoyoteNova
live in asia didnt rlly see mars
I would name one of the moons "Tide Pod" to signify the greatest occurrence of our generation.
DANDAN THE DANDAN No name all of them "Tide *Pods* "
They collided to each other after knowing their names
What a great day for science.
After they figure out 12 new moons of Jupiter. I clicked subscribe with a little bell! :)
we should name the new moon Bob
and one Barb.
and the other Vagene
Yeah I agree since my name's Bob
what about bich Lasagna
Knowledge is blowing my mind
I gonna name the new Prograde Moons of Jupiter as Kratos,and Thalia.
Now time to ask the 2 questions everyone is wondering. When will the moons collide and will we be able to see it from earth?
what if one of its new moons are inhabited by a civilization of dame tu cositas
Tafutea humanity would despacito the shit out of it
We would nuke them
No it's in Mars
Whut😓
Nice vid
Nice vid
Dude wtf, that's amazing!
Awesome!
Can one of these names be accepted?
Telios, Gasis, Lorneo, Franticia, Laminos, Idilia, and Edet.
Yeah
They are my moons
And I expected the idea
How one of the moons is named Decema one of Jupiter’s daughters, the roman goddess of the measuring of the thread of life
Eliot Videos it’s “Decima” and it is a good idea but they tend to use the original names of Greek mythology for the moons of each planet so that would make the moon named Lachesis.
Bob sounds like a good name for one of those moons.
Doremoon....this moon name will be easy to remember.
Sick
so its now 79. okaaaay 🙄
*Rolling Eyes Emoji.* What do you mean, bruh? You tryna questions smart ppl?
Jupiter has enough friends, Jupiter doesn't need more friends
How about MORSEL or MOIETY or MITE or SMIDGEN ?
All fancy names for "tiny piece" or something similar since the moons are fragments 🤔 will that do ?
Is there air?
I mean we are gonna need a new planet/place to continue the existance of humanity
Zaptipaz you are the first comment
On a few kilometres? Loll
Zaptipaz What makes you think anybody would want to continue the existence of humanity
No Jupiter contains to many gases
ME92TYME I think he is talking about on the moons, slim possibility as it is so far away
Why quality is too bad
Team. foRtress..camera quality is good.. But its like zooming by an DSLR camera to bacteria level.. Sorry bad English
No not dslr, opoo dual cam lol
Is there a moon or star or whatever named Socrate? I think it would be a great name for an object going in the opposite direction of everything else.
Baneria, sounds likes a good name for one of the moons
Why does everyone keep saying first?
Emma Artsthetic why not?
*First*
Emma Artsthetic everyone thinks They are first here lmao 😂😂😂
Because they are early
MaXX thanks for the reasonable answer
Jupiter's side chicks
Afaque Mulla Well, there were a LOT of those to choose from.
How about naming one the name of a Pomegranate seed, like what trapped someone into returning to Hades every year?
Woah thats amazing
Is it possible to one of its moon to collide and put our planet in dangerous?
Do you realize how far away Jupiter is?
Possible is to that jutpider could dangerous our planet.
Is it possible that two of its moons could collide and put our planet in danger?
I expected more from you Conan.
APJ ABDUL KALAM ❤️
I prefer to name those new one as Eyes of Jupiter hahaha
first
It's Ok! by Harsaaj you are 4th
Kronos
Like if you agree
Kenneth Brea DeLeon Jr. how about we name one “Saturn”? Ohhh right it’s already taken by the planet! Saturn=Kronos by the way. You are welcome for being educated.
Pls post a list and size to scale illustration of all of jupiter and its moons to scale
This is big moon energy.
This is exciting!
How did we not see this?!?
Woah this is huge....12 new origins of life
12 more names to be remembered
Jamoon is one of the names you can give to that Jupiter's solar system
Super cool!!
Congrats Jupiter Bro 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
Name them Waldo 1 to Waldo 12
Now that I finished school, this won't bother me anymore
Once they run out of sons and daughters of Zeus/Jupiter, how about using the names of the Cyclops and the Hecatonchires (Brontes, Arges, Briareos, etc.) for some of the newly-discovered moons? They were Zeus's allies in the battles against the Titans and other gods who rebelled against his rule.
So if Pluto is too small to be considered a planet by current standards, shouldn't there be a size limit for a satellite to be considered a moon as well? I mean if some of these "moons" are only "a few kilometers across," maybe they're too small to be actual moons? I mean when does a space rock that's been captured in a planet's orbit become a moon?
We know so much about Jupiter but so little about Uranus. It's like NASA have some kind of mental block against putting a probe up Uranus.
How about alien space ships? We could call them that!
Hahaha, can't tell if you're real of this is a joke.
AHHH THAT SO EXCITING
GEOMIRIC
HUMALONE
HUAZ
THAT ALL I GOT AS A EARTH MIGHT END SOON THAT VERY COOL
i was hoping for more big moons about the size of the moon
Two were already on Wikipedia! The have actually discovered another 10!
Nice
Well since astronomers have guts to name a planet Uranus, i'll name those moons Urballs.
Over 200 moons in our solar system but I’ve only seen one 👀
I will name one off the moons
Nice x
One small step for man... one giant leap for mankind.
That was yesterday, 40 Year’s ago
very proud
I'm wondering how the satellites we sent to Jupiter didn't saw these 12 moons in the first place?
I would call the new moons
The New Arrivals
BIG SMOKE! name it.
right on
Superb
Those 12 moons are so shy
Wow. Now they're gonna discover 12 full moons too in a fortnight I guess.
If I find a new moon am I allowed to officially name it?
jupiter is creating moons like there is no tomorrow
12 new moons of Jupiter,,,,great name
I would prefer designations as opposed to names. Even numbers are the pro grade group and odd numbers are the retrograde group. For example JM 2, jm4, jm6 Etc are pro-grade moons. JM 3, JM 5, JM 7, Etc are retrograde group. J m stands for Jupiter moon. Something along those lines. It would help making learning them easy.
Jupiter makes the solar system seems to have a solar system of its own...
Name the new moon 'Knowhere' as it'll probably crash into Valetudo someday
Jupiter is a solar system by itself. 🤔
1 of the new moon should be called Jupiter Jr
2 of the prograde spinning moon will be meledonia and ciro
Awesome
I’m feeling another boaty mcboat face situation coming on
"That's no moon, it's a space station."
We shall name it Phteven.
I would name one of the moons "Veilia"
I was thinking naming one reaper
How do you just not see twelve gigantic spheres in the sky.