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- Thu Apr 28, 2022 2:22 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Moon Shadow on Jupiter (2022 Apr 27)
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Re: APOD: Moon Shadow on Jupiter (2022 Apr 27)
There is something strange with this picture. The diameter of the moon's shadow here appears to by about one fifth of the equatorial diameter of the planet, but the actual diameters are 5200 km and 143000 km respectively, a ratio or 1 to 27.5. How can this be? (Is perhaps the neat circular shape of...