Thursday, September 4, 2008

The Moons of Jupiter: Astro Lab 2 (20 points)

Did you know that Jupiter has 63 moons? You need to know about4 ofthem by doing the activity found at CLEA on a Windows-based machine.

Go to here and download Juplab.exe. Track the progress of the 4 moons of Jupiter of 30 days, and then graph the patterns generated. Hand these in, after answering the following questions:

a) what patterns are observed, and what does that suggest?
b) why did Galileo see this as a 'mini-solar system'
c) what is so special about Io?
d) how do your findings relate to Kepler's laws?

Please make a comment on the COMMENTS section of this blog post, rather than your own.

9 comments:

Devon's Astro Blog said...

The moons of jupitor

a) waves which means they move in periods.

b)Jupitor as the sun and the moons as the planets.

c)it is the closest because the wavelengths are the closest

d) that you get egg shaped orbits and not perfect orbits.

bdomeyer said...

a. their waves, which means they move in periods

b.thought Jupiter was the sun and the moons were the planets

c.it's the closest moon to Jupiter

d.that you'll get egg shaped orbits

Jordan Mangold said...

moons of jupiter

the waves showd that it orbits in time frames.

the jupiter was the center and the moons rotate around ti like the planets do to the sun.

its the closest because the wavelengths are the closest

the orbits are not perfect circles and are more egg shapped

DYLAN said...

A)It shows that they move in periods

B)He thought of Jupiter as the sun and the moons were the planets

C)It's the closest moon to Jupiter

D)You will have egg shaped orbits

Dan Marshall said...

Moona of Jupiter

A. Move in periods because of waves

B. Thought Jupiter was the sun and the moons were planets

C. Closest moon to Jupiter

D.You will get egg shaped orbits

Chris Ketchum said...

i was dylan's partner

Mariah Mack said...

a) It moves in a wave pattern
b) He saw all the moons that looked like small planets circling a gaint plant
c) Is the cloest moon
d) The moons don't orbit in a perfect circle but are more oval

Hannah Routier said...

Moons of Jupiter-
1. they move in periods because of their waves.
2. He thought Jupiter was in the middle like the sun and the moons were like planets.
3. the closest moon
4. they are more egg shaped than round.

Troy Mensen said...

a) Waves, they movie in peroids
b) Because there is one large mass surrounded by smaller masses revolving it
c)It has the most eliptical orbit of the four moons, closetst-revolves fastest
d)Closer moons traveling faster than farther away moons, also..central mass with object circling in elipses