Re:Earth actually has two moons.
by joshAg on Thursday December 22, 2011 @06:47PM
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Jupiter has an orbital velocity of only 13.7 km/s, so even if Io is going the right direction and all the elliptical planes are parallel, isn't that still just a max orbital velocity of ~40 km/s, which is slow enough for orbit at 1AU?
It'd be interesting to see what happens at Jupiter's orbit, thouh. Does Io always leave? What about Callisto? It seems like there would be a large part of their orbit that would send them off into cometary orbits (or worse) depending on what direction they are going when scotty beams jupiter aboard the enterprise.
It'd be interesting to see what happens at Jupiter's orbit, thouh. Does Io always leave? What about Callisto? It seems like there would be a large part of their orbit that would send them off into cometary orbits (or worse) depending on what direction they are going when scotty beams jupiter aboard the enterprise.