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Jupiter Today | 17 May 2017

Distances:

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 815996407.74 km from the Sun.
    6536.92 km closer to the Sun than yesterday
    Accelerating towards the Sun at a radial velocity of 272.37 km/h (3.66 km/h faster than yesterday)

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 697685201.44 km from the Earth.
    15296322.24 km further from the Earth than yesterday
    Accelerating away from the Earth at a radial velocity of 63734.68 km/h (1341.93 km/h faster than yesterday)

Position and Motion:

At 0.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 3, 421967.74 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 3, 420535.15 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 420015.05 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 420799.11 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum Western Elongation <===
At 24.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 422296.71 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 1, 667217.32 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 1, 665524.57 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 2, 664941.92 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 2, 665594.86 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 2, 667338.10 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 1, 1072287.52 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 2, 1072014.15 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 2, 1071665.34 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 2, 1071256.07 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 2, 1070806.18 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 1, 1895292.77 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 1, 1895768.75 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 1, 1896140.87 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 1, 1896403.17 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 1, 1896545.88 km from Jupiter.

Io goes through an perijove at 11 hours 21 minutes UTC at a distance of 420006.82 km.
Europa goes through an perijove at 11 hours 49 minutes UTC at a distance of 664941.38 km.

Events:

Io Transit begins at 8 hours 35.0 minutes
Io Shadow Transit begins at 9 hours 25.0 minutes
Io Transit ends at 10 hours 46.0 minutes
Io Shadow Transit ends at 11 hours 36.0 minutes
Europa Occultation disappears at 6 hours 5.0 minutes
Europa Eclipse reappears at 10 hours 11.4 minutes
Ganymede Occultation disappears at 1 hour 6.0 minutes
Ganymede Occultation reappears at 3 hours 28.0 minutes
Ganymede Eclipse disappears at 4 hours 33.4 minutes
Ganymede Eclipse reappears at 6 hours 54.3 minutes









Earth direction along green line to the left

Sun direction along blue line to the left

Orbits as seen from above.  Moons orbit counter-clockwise.  Black dots represent location of respective moon at 0h, 6h, 12h, 18h, and 24h UTC.

Purple path: Io
Blue path: Europa
Yellow path: Ganymede
Red path: Callisto

Orbital Ribbons: These are the spacial and temporal connections between the four Jovian Moons.  Black dot indicates location of Jupiter



 

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