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mcc… thanks, Google. I guess
Meg@mcc can't complain when it does exactly what you asked lol
kevin harding | 何凯文@mcc they're not lying when they say everything is in toronto
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martin_fff@mcc don't know if this is correct but at least it sussed the context...
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=current+distance+from+europa+to+titan
@martin_fff I wasn't really asking the right question anyway, I was trying to get a distance between two Jovian moons and forgot Titan was Saturnine
@mcc ah, anyways try https://www.wolframalpha.com
@mcc I's guessing also Google thinks/knows you're in T.Dot?
Bodhipaksa@mcc @martin_fff I'd have thought that the distance between two Jovian moons would change moment by moment since they're both in orbit. Or did you mean the distance between their orbits?
@bodhipaksa @martin_fff Yes, or their distance at its shortest point (basically the same thing).
@mcc @martin_fff Do you mind if I ask why you wanted to know? (It’s an interesting question!)
@bodhipaksa @martin_fff I was earlier asking what it would take to make a GPS that covers the solar system https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110674497444151740
Someone proposed an approach but said it would only give a precision of 3500 miles. I was trying to get a sense of how far apart the moons of Jupiter or Saturn are to see how much precision you'd need in the worst case to at least determine the nearest astronomical body
(Possibly ignoring the degenerate case of the asteroid belt)
@mcc @bodhipaksa there's already astronavigation... I take it you're writing some speculative fiction
Jon@mcc @bodhipaksa @martin_fff I was thinking about Janus and Epithemus, co-orbiting moons of Saturn, but they apparently never approach closer than 10,000 km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimetheus_(moon)#Orbit . IIRC there are also some co-orbiting objects inside the ring system.
@mcc @martin_fff BTW, this website gives the moons' mean orbital distances from Jupiter, so you can do some basic arithmetic to find out.
https://web.pa.msu.edu/people/horvatin/Astronomy_Facts/planet_pages/Jupiters_moons.htm
@bodhipaksa @mcc Titan is a Saturnine moon, Europa is a Jovian...
@martin_fff @mcc Yes, @mcc said that above. What she meant to look for was the distance between two Jovian moons.
@bodhipaksa @mcc that's why I asked Wolfram for current position, as they're moons around different planets...
Dan Shick@mcc oh those Canucks
JP@mcc "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
TAKING TTC IS FINE THOUGH."
TAKING TTC IS FINE THOUGH."
✨nick nick nick nick✨2001's "beyond the infinite" but dave is just trying to get from like, kennedy to dundas west.
Colin Rowat@nicknicknicknick @jplebreton @mcc instead of J.G. Ballard (q.v. https://evergreenreview.com/read/the-assassination-of-john-fitzgerald-kennedy-considered-as-a-downhill-motor-race/) can have Harold Ballard write it up?
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The distance between celestial bodies … changes?
The distance between celestial bodies … changes?
@negative12dollarbill If I had picked two moons *both* in the Jovian system (which I had actually intended to do, but I mixed up Io and Titan) you could meaningfully talk about the minimum and maximum distance between their orbits
Fabian Transchel@mcc @negative12dollarbill Well of course you can talk about the distance of moons of different planets... it's just that the distance of the planets themselves will dominate the whole expression 😅
Resuna@mcc @negative12dollarbill really the distance between Jupiter and Saturn is just as meaningful an answer. Or not.
Aday@mcc Europe and America have never been so close!
John Link@mcc This could actually save NASA a ton of money.
Pusher Of Pixels (old account)@johnlink142 @mcc or it could implode to external pressures
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