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Jupiter Today | 18 June 2017

Distances:

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 815752513.37 km from the Sun.
    8743.89 km closer to the Sun than yesterday
    Moving towards the Sun at a radial velocity of 364.33 km/h
        (4.30 km/h faster than yesterday)

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 759818194.81 km from the Earth.
    2219297.90 km further from the Earth than yesterday
    Moving away from the Earth at a radial velocity of 92470.75 km/h
        (483.31 km/h faster than yesterday)

Positions and Motion:

At 0.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 3, 420448.55 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 420030.79 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 420911.06 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum Western Elongation <===
At 18.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 422420.78 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 423439.40 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 1, 665453.10 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 2, 665025.64 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 2, 665779.09 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 2, 667562.39 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 2, 670022.14 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1068280.25 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1068639.24 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1069074.08 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1069567.58 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1070101.02 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 1, 1890414.19 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 1, 1891460.26 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 1, 1892433.85 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 1, 1893318.36 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 1, 1894100.44 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 7964385.22 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 7951859.52 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 7938421.54 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 7924076.38 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 7908818.95 km from Jupiter.

Io goes through an perijove at 4 hours 52 minutes UTC at a distance of 420005.45 km.
Europa goes through an perijove at 5 hours 9 minutes UTC at a distance of 665013.80 km.

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Events:

Io Transit begins at 4 hours 49.0 minutes
Io Shadow Transit begins at 6 hours 1.0 minutes
Io Transit ends at 7 hours 0.0 minutes
Io Shadow Transit ends at 8 hours 11.0 minutes
Europa Occultation disappears at 4 hours 54.0 minutes
Europa Eclipse reappears at 9 hours 44.9 minutes
Ganymede Transit begins at 5 hours 18.0 minutes
Ganymede Transit ends at 7 hours 49.0 minutes
Ganymede Shadow Transit begins at 10 hours 20.0 minutes
Ganymede Shadow Transit ends at 12 hours 34.0 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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