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- Adrastea (/ædrəˈstiːə/), also known as Jupiter XV, is the second by distance, and the smallest of the four inner moons of Jupiter. It was discovered in...
- Adrastea, Adrasteia, Adrestea or Adrestia may refer to: Adrasteia or Adrestia (mythology) Adrastea (moon), the second of Jupiter's known moons Adrastea...
- Ancient Gr****: Ἀδράστεια, Ionic Gr****: Ἀδρήστεια), also spelled Adrastia, Adrastea, Adrestia, Adrestea, Adastreia or Adrasta, originally a Phrygian mountain...
- The main and halo rings consist of dust ejected from the moons Metis, Adrastea and perhaps smaller, unobserved bodies as the result of high-velocity impacts...
- 239 Adrastea is a main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Johann Palisa on 18 August 1884 in Vienna, and was named after the Gr**** nymph Adrasteia. This...
- orbit Jupiter in less than the length of Jupiter's day, the other being Adrastea. It orbits within the main ring of Jupiter, and is thought to be a major...
- spacecraft discovered an additional three inner moons in 1979: Metis, Adrastea, and Thebe. No additional moons were discovered until two decades later...
- be sorted into three groups: The Amalthea group, consisting of Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, and Thebe. They orbit substantially closer to Jupiter than other...
- main ring is most likely made out of material ejected from the satellites Adrastea and Metis, which is drawn into Jupiter because of the planet's strong gravitational...
- (/ˌædrəˈstiːə/; Ancient Gr****: Ἀδράστεια (Ionic Gr****: Ἀδρήστεια), "inescapable"), Adrastea, Adrestea or Adrestia (Ἀδρήστεια) may refer to: Adrasteia, a nymph who...