What are the names of Jupiter's moons?

Question

What are the names of Jupiter's moons?

Answer 1

The four large Galilean moons (the ones easy to see with a small telescope):

Io

Europa

Ganymede

Callisto



Others:

Amalthea

Adrastea

Metis

Thebe

Leda

Himalia

Lysithea

Elara

Ananke

Carme

Pasiphae

Sinope



This list is a few years old (late nineties). There may be a few more discovered since the Galileo mission -- certainly many very small satellites that don't have proper names. This is what I have.

Answer 2

Jupiter's known moons



Metis

Adrastea

Amalthea

Thebe

Io

Galileans

Europa

Ganymede

Callisto

Themisto

Leda

Himalia

Lysithea

Elara

S/2000 J 11

Carpo

S/2003 J 12 1

Euporie

S/2003 J 3

S/2003 J 18

Thelxinoe

Euanthe

Helike

Orthosie

S/2003 J 16

Praxidike

Harpalyke

Hermippe

Thyone

Mneme

S/2003 J 17

Aitne

Kale

Taygete

S/2003 J 19

Chaldene

S/2003 J 15

S/2003 J 10

S/2003 J 23

Erinome

Aoede

Kallichore

Kalyke

Eurydome

S/2003 J 14

Pasithee

Cyllene

Eukelade

S/2003 J 4

Hegemone

Arche

Carme

S/2003 J 9

S/2003 J 5

Pasiphaë

Sinope

Sponde

Autonoe

Callirrhoe

Megaclite

S/2003 J 2



The most recent discoveries:



On October 6, 1999, the Spacewatch project discovered an asteroid, 1999 UX18. But it was soon realised that this was in fact a previously undiscovered moon of Jupiter, now called Callirrhoe. One year later, between November 23 and December 5, 2000, the team led by Scott S. Sheppard and David C. Jewitt of the University of Hawaii began a systematic search for small irregular moons of Jupiter. The other members of the team included, at various times, Yanga R. Fernández, Eugene A. Magnier, Scott Dahm, Aaron Evans, Henry H. Hsieh, Karen J. Meech, John L. Tonry, David J. Tholen (all from the University of Hawaii), Jan Kleyna (Cambridge University), Brett J. Gladman (University of Toronto), John J. Kavelaars (Hertzberg Institute of Astrophysics), Jean-Marc Petit (Observatoire de Besançon) and Rhiannon Lynne Allen (University of Michigan / University of British Columbia).



The team used the world's two largest CCD cameras, mounted on two of the thirteen telescopes atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii: the Subaru (8.3 m diameter) and the Canada-France-Hawaii (3.6 m). The 2000 observations revealed ten new moons, putting the count at 28 (Themisto had been rediscovered at the beginning of 2000).



The following year, on December 9-11, 2001, eleven other moons were discovered, bringing the total to 39. The year 2002 bore less fruit, netting only one moon, Arche. However, four months later, between February 5 and 9, 2003, 23 more moons were found, making for a complete sum of 63 moons.

Answer 3

Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa are the Galilean moons. There are heaps.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter%27s_natural_satellites

Answer 4

while the question appears to have already been answered, i would like to mention the naming convention that has developed for all the captured moonlets outside of callisto's orbit



moons with names ending in 'a' have direct orbit

moons with names ending in 'e' have retrograde orbit



this rule does not apply to the four galileans, nor to the four moonlets - metis, adrastea, amalthea and thebe - which orbit inside io. all 8 of these satellites orbit direct

Answer 5

Jupiter has 28 moons.



1.Inner Moons:-

-Metis

-Adrastea

-Amalthea

-Thebe



2.Galilean moons:-

-Io

-Europa

-Ganymede

-Callisto



3.Outer Moons:-

-Leda

-Himalia

-Lysithea

-Elara

-Ananke

-Carme

-Pasiphae

-Sinope



4.New Moons:-

The following moons have only recently been discovered by scientists.

-W1302

-W1700

-W1704

-W1704_2

-W1800

-W1903_s

-W1805

-W1902

-W1904

-W2002_2

-W1700_2

Answer 6

Here you can find the data you are looking for:



http://ess.geology.ufl.edu/ess/Notes/020-Intro_ESS/Assign1/joviansatfact.html



An even better source is:

http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Jupiter/JupiterMoons.html