The Galileo star scanner observations at Amalthea

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Jun 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004icar..169..390f&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 169, Issue 2, p. 390-401.

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Satellites Of Jupiter, Jupiter, Impact Processes

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In November of 2002, the Galileo spacecraft passed within 250 km of Jupiter's moon Amalthea. An onboard telescope, the star scanner, observed a series of bright flashes near the moon. It is believed that these flashes represent sunlight reflected from 7 to 9 small moonlets located within about 3000 km of Amalthea. From star scanner geometry considerations and other arguments, we can constrain the diameter of the observed bodies to be between 0.5 m to several tens of kilometers. In September of 2003, while crossing Amalthea's orbit just prior to Galileo's destruction in the jovian atmosphere, a single additional body seems to have been observed. It is suspected that these bodies are part of a discrete rocky ring embedded within Jupiter's Gossamer ring system.

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