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The radio emission of a planet was first detected in 1955, when Burke and Franklin ( 1955 ) identified the origin of interference-like radio noise on their records at about 15 meters wave length as emission from Jupiter.
Steady radiation which was presumably of thermal origin was observed from Venus at 3.15 and 9.4 cm, and from Mars and Jupiter at 3.15 cm in 1956 ( Mayer, McCullough, and Sloanaker, 1958, A, B, C ), and from Saturn at 3.75 cm in 1957 ( Drake and Ewen, 1958 ).
However, the messenger god Mercury was sent by Jupiter and Venus to remind Aeneas of his journey and his purpose, compelling him to leave secretly.
Aeneas was recognized as the god Jupiter Indiges.
Aelia came from Hadrian's nomen gentile, Aelius, while Capitolina meant that the new city was dedicated to Jupiter Capitolinus, to whom a temple was built on the site of the former Jewish temple, the Temple Mount.
Comet Shoemaker – Levy 9 ( formally designated D / 1993 F2 ) was a comet that broke apart and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision of Solar System objects.
Shoemaker – Levy 9, at the time captured by and orbiting Jupiter, was located on the night of March 24, 1993, in a photograph taken with the Schmidt telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California.
Calculations showed that its unusual fragmented form was due to a previous closer approach to Jupiter in July 1992.
Brian Marsden of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams noted that the comet lay only about 4 degrees from Jupiter as seen from Earth, and that while this could of course be a line of sight effect, its apparent motion in the sky suggested that it was physically close to the giant planet.
Orbital studies of the new comet soon revealed that it was orbiting Jupiter rather than the Sun, unlike all other comets known at the time.
Its orbit around Jupiter was very loosely bound, with a period of about 2 years and an apojove ( the point in the orbit farthest from the planet ) of.
Before the comet was captured by Jupiter, it was probably a short-period comet with an aphelion just inside Jupiter's orbit, and a perihelion interior to the asteroid belt.
Because the comet's motion with respect to Jupiter was very small, it fell almost straight toward Jupiter, which is why it ended up on a Jupiter-centric orbit of very high eccentricitythat is to say, the ellipse was nearly flattened out.
More exciting for planetary astronomers was that the best orbital solutions suggested that the comet would pass within of the center of Jupiter, a distance smaller than the planet's radius, meaning that there was an extremely high probability that SL9 would collide with Jupiter in July 1994.
The discovery that the comet was likely to collide with Jupiter caused great excitement within the astronomical community and beyond, as astronomers had never before seen two significant Solar System bodies collide.
While the impacts took place on the side of Jupiter hidden from Earth, Galileo, then at a distance of 1. 6 AU from the planet, was able to see the impacts as they occurred.

Jupiter and depicted
The location of his two temples in Rome — near those of Jupiter ( one on the Capitoline Hill, in the low between the arx and the Capitolium, between the two groves where the asylum founded by Romulus stood, the other on the Tiber Island near that of Iuppiter Iurarius, later also known as temple of Aesculapius )— may be significant in this respect, along with the fact that he is considered the father of Apollo ( perhaps because he was depicted carrying arrows ).
These were crowned with a statue of Jupiter, typically on horseback, defeating or trampling down a Giant, often depicted as a snake.
In Swiss Troccas decks, he is depicted as Jupiter, the Roman King of the Gods.
Gas giant planets such as Jupiter ( pictured above ) and Saturn may contain large amounts of metallic hydrogen ( depicted in grey )
Jupiter is depicted as superstitious and so lacking in intelligence that he cannot tell his left from his right.
* In Ancient Rome, the sky father, or sky god, was Jupiter ( Zeus, Ζεύς, in Ancient Greece ), often depicted by birds, usually the eagle or hawk, and clouds or other sky phenomena.
Adam provides information about the characteristics of the three gods, including that Fricco is depicted with an immense erect penis, Wodan in armor (" as our people depict Mars ," Adam notes ) and that Thor has a mace, a detail which Adam compares to that of the Roman god Jupiter.
The Decepticons attempted to gain control of this model of Space Bridge technology to teleport Cybertron ( depicted here as a huge Jupiter Brain-like construct vastly larger than Earth ) into our star system and cause it to collide with Earth.
Ten years after the events of the Cosmo Babylon Wars depicted in F91, 13 year-old protagonist Tobia Arronax is a transfer student from Earth heading to the very affluent Jupiter Empire colonies aboard the Smashion Jovian transport ship.
* The images nominally depicted famous pairings of lovers ( e. g. Antony and Cleopatra ) or husband-and-wife deities ( e. g. Jupiter and Juno ) from classical history and mythology engaged in sexual activity, and were entitled as such.

Jupiter and twin
According to mythology, Diana was born with her twin brother Apollo on the island of Delos, daughter of Jupiter and Latona.
JPL-run projects include the Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons, the Mars rovers ( including the 1997 Mars Pathfinder and the twin 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers ).
It was named in August 2003 after Aitna or Aitne, the divine personification of Mount Etna, whose sons by Zeus ( Jupiter ) are the Palici, the twin Sicilian gods of geysers ( other authors have them descend from Thalia and / or Hephaistos ).
Castor and Pollux ( Greek Polydeuces ) were the Dioscuri, the " twins " of Gemini, the twin sons of Zeus ( Jupiter ) and Leda.
was suggested as a target for New Horizons 2, a proposed twin of its namesake that would flyby Jupiter, Uranus, and up to four KBOs.

Jupiter and Juno
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According to Ovid, it was Jupiter ( Zeus ) who took the form of Diana ( Artemis ) so that he might evade his wife Juno ’ s detection, forcing himself upon Callisto while she was separated from Diana and the other nymphs.
Launchers have included Jupiter C / Juno I, Juno II, various Thor rockets such as Thor-Able, Scout, various Delta and Delta II rockets ( see Delta rocket family ), and Pegasus.
Jupiter ( mythology ) | Jupiter and Juno ( mythology ) | Juno by Annibale Carracci.
The first is that the month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter and equivalent to the Greek goddess Hera ; the second is that the name comes from the Latin word iuniores, meaning " younger ones ," as opposed to maiores (" elders ") for which the preceding month May may be named ( Fasti VI. 1 – 88 ).
* Juno ( spacecraft ), a NASA mission to Jupiter
Among the Laboratory's current major active projects are the Mars Science Laboratory mission ( which includes the Curiosity rover ), the Cassini – Huygens mission orbiting Saturn, the Mars Exploration Rovers ( Spirit and Opportunity ), the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Dawn mission to the dwarf planet Ceres and asteroid Vesta, the Juno spacecraft en route to Jupiter, the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory ( GRAIL ) mission to the Moon, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array ( NuSTAR ) X-ray telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Minerva was worshipped on the Capitoline Hill as one of the Capitoline Triad along with Jupiter and Juno, at the Temple of Minerva Medica, and at the " Delubrum Minervae " a temple founded around 50 BC by Pompey on the site now occupied by the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva facing the present-day Piazza della Minerva.
* The Ludi Magni ( Ludi Romani ) of classical Rome in honor of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva began on September 4.
This one substitutes Juno and Jupiter for the Papess, or High Priestess and the Pope, or Hierophant.
* The Tarot de Besançon and the Swiss Tarot 1JJ are similar, but are of a different graphical design, and replaces the Pope with Jupiter, the Popess with Juno, and the Angel with the Judgement.
If a declaration of war ensues, the fetial calls upon Jupiter, Juno ( or Janus ), Quirinus, and the heavenly, earthly and chthonic gods as witnesses of any potential violation of the ius.
Jupiter was worshiped there as an individual deity, and with Juno and Minerva as part of the Capitoline Triad.
It is possible that the Etruscans paid particular attention to Menrva ( Minerva ) as a goddess of destiny, in addition to the royal couple Uni ( Juno ) and Tinia ( Jupiter ).
The function of Iuventas is to protect the iuvenes ( the novi togati of the year, who are required to offer a sacrifice to Jupiter on the Capitol ) and the Roman soldiers ( a function later attributed to Juno ).
* NASA's Juno spacecraft is expected to arrive at Jupiter.
* NASA's Juno Jupiter exploration probe is scheduled to end its mission and be deorbited, after spending over a year in Jupiter orbit.
Originally all the streets of Vulcan were named after gods and goddesses of the classical world such as Juno, Mars, and Jupiter.
The Jupiter-C design used for the launch had already been flight-tested in nose cone reentry tests for the Jupiter IRBM, and was modified into Juno I.

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