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RESULTS FROM JUNO (2018, Perijoves 11-17)

The Juno mission continues throughout 2018, with the spacecraft in a 53-day orbit around Jupiter. Annotated images from Juno’s camera

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Juno at Perijove-10, Part II: Global maps

This is based entirely on the maps produced from PJ10 images by Gerald Eichstädt. As there was no inbound coverage,

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Comet prospects for 2025

Comet prospects for 2025 From the Handbook:  text table From the Journal: text  table Comet prospects for 2024 From the

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Juno at Perijove-10 (Part I)

At Juno’s perijove-10 (PJ10) on 2017 Dec.16, JunoCam again returned a superb set of closeup images. The preliminary report can

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174P outburst progress

Around two weeks after the outburst of 174P noted here the coma continues to expand but the total magnitude remains

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174P Echeclus in outburst

For an update on this outburst see here. The unusual Centaur comet 174P Echeclus is currently undergoing one of its

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Juno’s images show another significant change on Jupiter

While Jupiter was invisible from Earth behind the Sun, Juno’s images mapped the planet and revealed a new South Tropical Disturbance

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Juno at Perijove-9 (Part II): What the close-up images show

Summary:  At perijove-9 (PJ9) on 2017 Oct.24, JunoCam took the usual superb sets of images covering both polar regions, and

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Juno at Perijove-9 (Part I): Global maps

Summary:  This perijove on 2017 Oct.24 took place only 2 days before Jupiter’s solar conjunction, so there were no useful

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OBITUARY: Ewen Adair Whitaker

Before the advent of the Space Age the study of our Moon was largely in the hands of amateur astronomers

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