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Thebe (moon)
Thebe
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Discovery Discovered by
Stephen P. Synnott / Voyager 1 Discovered on
March 5, 1979 Orbital characteristics Mean radius
221,900 km (0.001483 AU) Periapsis
218,000 km (0.00146 AU) Apoapsis ...
Thebes ( ; , ; , ) is a city in Greece
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Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans.
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(th´b), in astronomy, one of the 39 known moons, or natural satellites, of Jupiter.
Thebe Statistics Discovered byStephen Synnott
Date of discovery1979
Mass (kg)7.77e+17 ...
Thebe
The moon Thebe was discovered by Synnott in 1979. It was named after a nymph, daughter of the river god Asopus. Thebe is the fourth known moon from the surface of Jupiter. It too was probably and asteroid at one time.
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Thebe ("THEE bee") is the fourth of Jupiter's known satellites: orbit: 222,000 km from Jupiter diameter: 100 km (100 x 90) mass: 7.77e17 kg
Thebe was a nymph, daughter of the river god Asopus.
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Thebe (NASA Thesaurus) A natural satellite of Jupiter orbiting at a mean distance of 221,900 kilometers.
Around the time Memphis fell to the Hyksos, the native Egyptian ruling house in Thebes declared its independence from the vassal dynasty in Itj-tawy and set itself up as the Seventeenth Dynasty.
These images of the inner Jovian moons Thebe, Amalthea, and Metis (left to right), taken in January, 2000, by the Galileo spacecraft, are the highest resolution images ever obtained of these small, irregularly shaped satellites.
Cephalus inherited the dog, and took it with him to Thebes (not Thebes in Egypt but a town in Boeotia, north of Athens) where a vicious fox was ravaging the countryside.
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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.
It is composed of very tiny particles, the microscopic debris from the moons, Amalthea and Thebe. The Gossamer ring starts at 129,000 km from the center of Jupiter and extends beyond the orbit of the moon Amalthea. Enchanted Learning® ...
In another legend, Draco represents the dragon killed by Cadmus before founding the city of Thebes, Greece. In a third legend, it represents the dragon that guarded the Golden Fleece and was killed by Jason.
The moons of Jupiter are (in order by their distance from Jupiter): Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, Thebe, Io, Europa, Ganymede (the biggest), Callisto (the second biggest), Leda (the smallest), Himalia, Lysithea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasiphae, Sinope, ...
Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Amalthea, Himalia, Elara, Pasiphae, Sinope, Lysithea, Carme, Ananke, Leda, Metis, Adrastea, Thebe, Callirrhoe, Themisto, Kalyke, Iocaste, Erinome, Harpalyke, Isonoe, Praxidike, Megaclite, Taygete, Chaldene, Autonoe, ...
Airy sent astronomers from Greenwich to five locations around the world, including Honolulu, Thebes and Cape Town, to observe the 1874 transit.
Draco is also associated with the dragon that guarded the Golden Fleece and was killed by Jason, as well as with the dragon killed by the Phoenician prince Cadmus before he founded the city of Thebes in Boeotia in Greece.
A temple to Menat (an early Hathor) at Thebes was oriented with reference to Spica when it was constructed in 3200 BC and, over time, precession resulted in a slow but noticeable change in the location of Spica relative to the temple.
Athens built up a second confederacy and recovered a position equal to Sparta's, and then Thebes became for a moment the supreme power under Epaminondas.
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.
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, Thebe, ...
All but five died and these five helped Cadmus to build a new city. This city was the famaous city called Thebes.
(This story can be found in "Metamorphoses, III" by the latin poet Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC - 17 AC).) ...
Tidal stresses could be one possible source of this heat; alternatively, it may arise from electrical currents induced in the moon's core by Jupiter's powerful magnetic field. Material lost from the surface of Amalthea, and also from Thebe, ...
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