Jupiter will get so close to Earth this month its largest moons will be visible

[TECSHARE]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jupiter-will-get-so-close-to-earth-this-month-its-largest-moons-will-be-visible-with-binoculars/

I occasionally like to monitor events like this. I thought some of you might also like a heads up so you can see it yourself. I am going to try to get some pictures. If they are any good and not just distant glowing dots I will post them.

[sheenshane]

Thank you for sharing the article. But seriously? Does Jupiter have 79 moons? I can't imagine humans living on that planet.

There's a least of us to survive right there.

I would love to see this event. However, I need to find the nearest place where the telescope is available and free to use.

[DireWolfM14]

Thank you for sharing the article. But seriously? Does Jupiter have 79 moons? I can't imagine humans living on that planet.

There's a least of us to survive right there.

I would love to see this event. However, I need to find the nearest place where the telescope is available and free to use.

It has more than that.  Those are only the ones big enough to count as "moons."  Jupiter also has a very faint, thin ring with maybe millions of tiny moons.

You won't need a telescope to see the bigger moons, just a pair of decent binoculars.  The hardest part for most plant hunters is getting out of the areas with light pollution.  Find a spot on a mountain top, away from civilization and streetlights, sit back in your lawn-chair with your binoculars, and enjoy the view.  Saturn can also be viewed the same way, the rings pop out like magic.  It's quite amazing.

[BADecker]

How far will Jupiter really be from Earth? And is this distance as close as their orbits get in any place around the sun?

[DireWolfM14]

How far will Jupiter really be from Earth? And is this distance as close as their orbits get in any place around the sun?

The orbits of the two plants in question (earth and jupiter) aren't perfectly concentric, nor are they perfectly circular, they have a bit of an elliptical motion.  The closest the planets can be to one another is when Jupiter is at it's perihelion, and earth as it's aphelion, and the earth passes directly between Jupiter and the sun at that very moment in their orbits.  I don't believe that's the case in this situation.

Every year the earth passes between Jupiter and the sun, and that's the closest we'll in any particular year.  The time of year this happens can very because Jupiter orbits the sun once every 12 years.

[BADecker]

^^^ Thank you. I don't follow astronomy closely enough to know. But I thought something like this this might be the case.

[TimeBits]

The moons will collide but I will stop it from having to much of a impact over here but I need your help or we will get some serious tidal waves going on (1000 ft high), make sure to mooner the moon and rip a big fart, I will need the excess gasses to fight vs the gas giant to burn up the moon before it hits earth, everyone will need to eat 2-3 burritos and chili on the 15th. If you can stock pile on gas balloons and release them all at 18:00:00 on the 15th of June I may just have enough power to stop our orbit from getting messed up, smell speed everyone, smell speed.

[TimeBits]

The moons will collide but I will stop it from having to much of a impact over here but I need your help or we will get some serious tidal waves going on (1000 ft high), make sure to mooner the moon and rip a big fart, I will need the excess gasses to fight vs the gas giant to burn up the moon before it hits earth, everyone will need to eat 2-3 burritos and chili on the 15th. If you can stock pile on gas balloons and release them all at 18:00:00 on the 15th of June I may just have enough power to stop our orbit from getting messed up, smell speed everyone, smell speed.

I am serious, we need to use our black holes to protect us, if we get enough methane gas into the assmopshere I can save us reflecting it off uranus.

[mersal]

Thank you for sharing the article. But seriously? Does Jupiter have 79 moons? I can't imagine humans living on that planet.

Don't worry its not suitable for any organisms to live because its just combination of gas so scientists found that there maybe no surface on that planet,the gases still hold together just because sun is too far away so there is not enough heat to evoporation.

But I never seen any moons from other planets.