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Jupiter Today | 14 December 2017

Distances:

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 813046939.20 km from the Sun.
    21167.21 km closer to the Sun than yesterday
    Moving towards the Sun at a radial velocity of 881.97 km/h
        (0.67 km/h slower than yesterday)

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 923074607.14 km from the Earth.
    1524899.54 km closer to the Earth than yesterday
    Moving towards the Earth at a radial velocity of 63537.48 km/h
        (1130.63 km/h faster than yesterday)

Positions and Motion:

At 0.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 3, 423344.61 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 423348.48 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 422182.07 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum Western Elongation <===
At 18.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 1, 420699.87 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 1, 420005.98 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 3, 672335.38 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 3, 669514.03 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 3, 666982.11 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 3, 665247.87 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 3, 664677.01 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1069355.16 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1069772.20 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1070224.24 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1070693.93 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1071159.60 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1870473.39 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1871093.28 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1871805.61 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 4, 1872610.39 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 4, 1873507.15 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 2849045.24 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 2684535.21 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 2512274.82 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 2331191.21 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 2139890.39 km from Jupiter.

Io goes through an apojove at 3 hours 1 minutes UTC at a distance of 423515.84 km.
Europa goes through an perijove at 23 hours 39 minutes UTC at a distance of 664674.75 km.

Audio:



Events:

Io Shadow Transit begins at 0 hours 9.0 minutes
Io Transit begins at 0 hours 55.0 minutes
Io Shadow Transit ends at 2 hours 20.0 minutes
Io Transit ends at 3 hours 6.0 minutes
Io Eclipse disappears at 21 hours 25.8 minutes
Europa Shadow Transit begins at 18 hours 55.0 minutes
Europa Transit begins at 20 hours 27.0 minutes
Europa Shadow Transit ends at 21 hours 12.0 minutes
Europa Transit ends at 22 hours 44.0 minutes
Ganymede Shadow Transit begins at 13 hours 54.0 minutes
Ganymede Shadow Transit ends at 15 hours 46.0 minutes
Ganymede Transit begins at 17 hours 1.0 minutes
Ganymede Transit ends at 18 hours 55.0 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:




Distances and motion between Moons: Position, Velocity, Acceleration, Jerk, Jounce, and Crackle:











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