Talk:Moons of Jupiter

So the other 93 moons only make up 0.003 percent. But can we add a chart how the moons are distributed there? What percentage do Amalthea and Himalia take up. Saturn has a chart of moons without Titan. 91.42.54.136 (talk) 22:58, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Most of the masses are unknown, and the masses of Amalthea and Himalia are uncertain at a level that would be easily visible in a pie chart. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:22, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

The current page says that there are 95 moons as of 2023, but the note sources two moons announced in 2025. That same notes says, verbatim, “These add two more to the previous count of 95, bringing the total up to 95”. So, how many are there? 95 or 97? 86.13.247.51 (talk) 19:49, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Someone vandalized the article. This should be corrected now. Nrco0e (talk • contribs) 21:10, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/abad95/pdf mentions an object called j22r94a24 and a lot more objects w/ such names [reminds me of c02n4]. This also gives additional names [in the same style] to a handful of moons w/ normal names Higgs In Space (talk) 21:13, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

@Higgs In Space: This paper was already discussed a bit in this article. Nrco0e (talk • contribs) 21:20, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

But like on the moons of Saturn page, should we also add a list for those objects? Fred1000000000 (talk) 17:37, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

No. Ashton et al. had a list of 120 unconfirmed Saturnian moons from 2021, but since then many of these were confirmed. However, there's no way of telling which ones remain unconfirmed. The same goes for this list of Jovian moons. There's a good chance one of the 46 Jovian moons from Ashton et al.'s 2020 paper has been confirmed (or will be in the near future), but there's no reliable source that tells us which remains unconfirmed or confirmed. Nrco0e (talk • contribs) 19:32, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

Should we be listing Aoede as 10 km in diameter per (J41 in Table 4) or be using Sheppard's 4 km? -- Kheider (talk) 15:37, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

@Kheider: The MPC says Aoede has an absolute magnitude of H=15.48, based on 74 observations (uncalibrated, with varying accuracy I presume). On the other hand, the table you're using uses only 6 (calibrated) observations (I do not know how accurate this can be, but I'd be cautious of making estimates from such low datapoints). Assuming an albedo of 0.04 translates the MPC's H to a diameter of 5.3 km. Sheppard and NASA's estimates of 4 km diameter are the closest to the MPC-derived diameter.

For consistency with the other moons displayed in this list, I'd say stick to Sheppard's diameter estimates here. The list also uses MPC H values, which should roughly line up with Sheppard's diameter estimates. Nrco0e (talk • contribs) 17:25, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

I made a quick edit to the main Aoede article, to show the two different values. -- Kheider (talk) 18:32, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

yeah, best to show both than to favor one. Nrco0e (talk • contribs) 18:42, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

Nominator: Igordebraga (talk · contribs) 15:42, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

GA review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Moons of Jupiter/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Векочел (talk · contribs) 02:32, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

Review to come over the next days. Векочел (talk) 02:32, 27 March 2026 (UTC)