Adrastea
The second-closest moon of Jupiter, moving just one Jovian radius above Jupiter's cloud tops. Adrastea is extremely small and irregular in shape.
Adrastea
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(ädrst´), in astronomy, one of the 39 known moons, or natural satellites, of Jupiter.
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Image of Adrastea taken by Galileo's solid state imaging system between November 1996 and June 1997.
Adrastea
Jupiter XV - 1979J1
Adrastea [a-DRAS-tee-uh] is the second innermost known satellite of Jupiter. Adrastea was the daughter of Jupiter and Ananke and the distributor of rewards and punishments.
Adrastea
Adrastea was discovered in 1979 by David Jewitt. In mythology Adrastea was the god who passed out rewards and punishments, she was also the daughter of Jupiter. This moon is the second closest moon to the surface of Jupiter.
Adrastea
Jupiter XV
Adrastea ("a DRAS tee uh") is the second of Jupiter's known satellites: orbit: 129,000 km from Jupiter diameter: 20 km (23 x 20 x 15) mass: 1.91e16 kg ...
ADRASTEA
Adrastea is the second-closest moon to Jupiter. Adrastea is 12 miles (20 km) in diameter and orbits 80,000 miles (129,000 km) from Jupiter, within its main ring.
ADRASTEA
Adrastea is one of Jupiter's 16 moons, and the second-closest to Jupiter. Adrastea is 12 miles (20 km) in diameter and orbits 80,000 miles (129,000 km) from Jupiter, within its main ring.
Adrastea [1979 J1]:
References
Arnett, W. "The Nine Planets: Adrastea." .
Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea and Thebe
Io
Europa
Ganymede
Callisto
Leda, Himalia, Lysithea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasiphae and Sinope
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Metis and Adrastea orbit near its outer edge.
Amalthea Ring [1]
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Rings Metis and Adrastea Cassini images showed the degree to which the orbits of two small moons near the ring, Metis and Adrastea, are inclined. That matches the vertical thickness of the ring.
Adrastea (NASA Thesaurus) A natural satellite of Jupiter orbiting at a mean distance of 129,980 kilometers. adsorbate (NASA SP-7, 1965) In the process of adsorption, the adsorbed substance.
The main ring is probably made of material ejected from the satellites Adrastea and Metis. Material that would normally fall back to the moon is pulled into Jupiter because of its strong gravitational pull.
Inner satellites or Amalthea group-they orbit very close to Jupiter: Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, and Thebe.
The four rings - Metis, Adrastea, Thebe, and Amalthea - are constantly struck by meteoroids collisions that shower Jupiter's rings with more debris and dusts.
Their names, in order from Jupiter are Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, and Thebe. Still in order after the Galilean Satellites are recently discovered Themisto, Leda, Himalia, Lysithea, and Elara.
The main ring is made of dust from the satellites Adrastea and Metis. Two wide gossamer rings encircle the main ring, originating from Thebe and Amalthea. There is also an extremely tenuous and distant outer ring that circles Jupiter backwards.
Metis and the next moon, Adrastea, are probably the source of the dust in this ring. Metis has a mass of 9 x 1016kg. It orbits Jupiter in 0.294780 (Earth) days; this is faster than Jupiter rotates on its axis.
However, they are probably also being continuously resupplied by dust driven into space from energic, interplanetary micrometeors that smash into Jupiter's four small, innermost moons: Metis, Adrastea, Thebe, and Amalthea -- more.
moon in the Solar System is Saturn's moon Titan.) The smaller moons are the size of asteroids, and were discovered in the 1900s with more powerful telescopes. Jupiter's moons are (from nearest to furthest from the planet): Metis, Adrastea, Almathea, ...
 See also: Jupiter, Metis, Planet, Solar, Earth
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