ganymede in English

noun
1
a Trojan youth who was so beautiful that he was carried off by Zeus to be the cupbearer for the Olympic gods.
2
one of the Galilean moons of Jupiter, the seventh closest satellite to the planet and the largest satellite in the solar system with a diameter of 3,268 miles (5,260 km).

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1. Some of the energetic particles are trapped near the equator of Ganymede, creating mini-radiation belts.

2. The current heat flux out of Ganymede is probably higher than that out of Callisto.

3. The Galileo craft made six close flybys of Ganymede from 1995–2000 (G1, G2, G7, G8, G28 and G29) and discovered that Ganymede has a permanent (intrinsic) magnetic moment independent of the Jovian magnetic field.

4. The current Laplace resonance is unable to pump the orbital eccentricity of Ganymede to a higher value.

5. The accretion of Ganymede probably took about 10,000 years, much shorter than the 100,000 years estimated for Callisto.

6. Although Callisto is very similar in bulk properties to Ganymede, it apparently had a much simpler geological history.

7. Among the Galilean satellites, in both mass and volume, Io ranks behind Ganymede and Callisto but ahead of Europa.

8. Examples are the 1:2:4 resonance of Jupiter's moons Ganymede, Europa and Io, and the 2:3 resonance between Pluto and Neptune.

9. In this episode we will review Super Ecksdee Panic by Strife, Sombreros by Dustin Gunn, Jumper by Petri A, and Bodgee Bee by Ganymede Graphics

10. The cap is then sent round for contributions towards a further instalment of the foundation of Conviviality, which is fetched from the canteen or the sergeant's mess; and another and yet another supply is sent for, as long as the funds hold out and somebody keeps sober enough to act as Ganymede.

11. This effect induces a periodic exchange between the inclination and eccentricity of the orbit; if the inclination is large enough, the eccentricity can in turn grow so large that the periapsis of the satellite (called the perizene in the case of moons of Jupiter) would be in the immediate vicinity of the Galilean moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto).