Physics – Space Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 1983
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(International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, General Assembly, 18th, Hamburg, West Germany, Aug. 15-27, 1983) Reviews of Geop
Physics
Space Physics
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Gas Giant Planets, Natural Satellites, Planetology, Galilean Satellites, Icy Satellites, Planetary Orbits, Saturn Satellites, Giant Planets, Satellites, Pioneer Missions, Mission Descriptions, Planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Review, Data, Orbits, Radius, Catalog, Density, Albedo, Surface, Composition, Physical Properties, Mass, Io, Europa, Comparisons, Icy Bodies, Triton
Scientific paper
The present investigation takes into account the published literature on outer planet satellites for 1979-1982. It is pointed out that all but three (the moon and the two Martian satellites) of the known planetary satellites are found in the outer solar system. Most of these are associated with the three regular satellite systems of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. The largest satellites are Titan in the Saturn system and Ganymede and Callisto in the Jupiter system. Intermediate in size between Mercury and Mars, each has a diameter of about 5000 km. Presumably each has an internal composition about 60 percent rock and 40 ice, and each is differentiated with a dense core extending out about 75 percent of the distance to the surface, with a mantle of high-pressure ice and a crust of ordinary ice perhaps 100 km thick. Attention is also given to Io, Europa, the icy satellites of Saturn, the satellites of Uranus, the small satellites of Jupiter and Saturn, Triton and the Pluto system, and plans for future studies.
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