Open AccessRubble around Jupiter
Author(s) -
Showstack Randy
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2002eo000422
Subject(s) - rubble , jupiter (rocket family) , astronomer , jet propulsion , astrobiology , meteorology , geology , aeronautics , engineering , astronomy , physics , aerospace engineering , space exploration , geotechnical engineering
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has announced that Amalthea, a 270‐km‐long, potato‐shaped inner moon of Jupiter, “apparently is a loosely packed pile of rubble,” with empty space where the rubble does not fit well together. This is among the new findings about the moon announced by JPL astronomer John Anderson and his colleagues on 9 December at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco.