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Is Amalthea a Captured Trojan Asteroid of Jupiter?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Andrew J. R. Prentice
Andrew J. R. Prentice*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia

Abstract

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The Galileo spacecraft has found Jupiter’s inner regular moon Amalthea to be a porous assemblage of rock and ice. This and other factors point to Amalthea having first condensed in a solar orbit.

Type
II. Special Scientific Sessions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 13 , 2005 , pp. 901
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2005

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