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Jupiter Today | 20 May 2017


Distances:

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 815976787.73 km from the Sun.
    6631.55 km closer to the Sun than yesterday
    Accelerating towards the Sun at a radial velocity of 276.31 km/h (6.58 km/h slower than yesterday)

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 702462046.73 km from the Earth.
    1622938.52 km further from the Earth than yesterday
    Accelerating away from the Earth at a radial velocity of 67622.22 km/h (1266.40 km/h faster than yesterday)

Positions and Motion:

At 0.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 1, 423361.55 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 2, 423317.77 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum Eastern Elongation <===
At 12.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 2, 422128.85 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 3, 420662.77 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 3, 420013.01 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 1, 672527.48 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 1, 669842.05 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 1, 667387.49 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 1, 665643.33 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 1, 664956.51 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1068186.68 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1068253.87 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1068429.22 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1068700.00 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1069047.83 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1893468.90 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1892623.75 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1891681.46 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1890654.23 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1889558.94 km from Jupiter.

Io goes through an apojove at 2 hours 48 minutes UTC at a distance of 423508.68 km.
Io goes through an perijove at 23 hours 58 minutes UTC at a distance of 420012.99 km.

Events:

Io Occultation disappears at 0 hours 12.0 minutes
Io Eclipse reappears at 3 hours 18.9 minutes
Io Transit begins at 21 hours 29.0 minutes
Io Shadow Transit begins at 22 hours 23.0 minutes
Io Transit ends at 23 hours 40.0 minutes
Europa Occultation disappears at 19 hours 15.0 minutes
Europa Eclipse reappears at 23 hours 28.4 minutes
Ganymede Transit begins at 14 hours 44.0 minutes
Ganymede Shadow Transit ends at 20 hours 44.0 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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