Abstract
It was prescient of the ancient Greeks to attach the name of their sovereign god, Jupiter, to that particular planet. They could have had no idea just how giant a planet Jupiter really is. More than 92 percent of all the material in the solar system, except the Sun, is part of Jupiter and Saturn. Jupiter has 318 times the mass of the Earth, and 11 times its diameter. We pause now to learn about this central figure in our comet crash story.
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A. P. Ingersoll’s “Jupiter and Saturn,” offers a good technical summary of our knowledge of Jupiter. It appears in J. K. Beatty, B. O’Leary and A. Chaikin, The New Solar System, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Sky Publishing Corporation, 1982), 117–129.
B. A. Smith, “The Voyager Encounters,” in Beatty et al., 109.
Ingersoll, 122.
Ibid., 124.
J. W. Van Allen, “Magnetospheres and the Interplanetary Medium,” in Beatty et al., 26.
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Levy, D.H. (1995). The Planet King. In: Impact Jupiter. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6102-0_5
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