Juno to circle Jupiter for ‘planetary recipe’

Source: Agence France-Presse

Monday, August 1, 2011 , by Kerry Sheridan, AFP
Juno to circle Jupiter for ‘planetary recipe’

The US space agency plans to launch this week a solar-powered spacecraft called Juno that will journey to the gassy planet of Jupiter in search of how the huge, stormy giant was formed.

The $1.1 billion unmanned orbiter is scheduled for launch on Friday – the start of a five-year odyssey towardS the solar system’s most massive planet – in the hopes that it will be able to circle Jupiter for a period of a year.

With its fiery red eye and a mass greater than all the objects in the universe combined, Jupiter is intriguing to astronomers because it is believed to be the first planet that took shape around the Sun.

“After the sun formed, it got the majority of the leftovers,” said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator and scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.



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With its fiery red eye and a mass greater than all the objects in the universe combined, Jupiter is intriguing to astronomers because it is believed to be the first planet that took shape around the Sun.

having mass i guess....good catch

...And many of them would have tables or illustrations that suggested that "the universe" was synonymous with "the solar system." It used to annoy me, which is why I remember it.

Anyone else recall this?

The best part of that statement is that it's a paradox. I would love for it to be true; a thing that could be in the universe but not of it.

Here's the French - which gets it right, and with something very easily translated into English:



It doesn't take much to translate 'planètes' to 'planets'.

Since the English article first appeared 3 days ago: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jDsKFW901MMVXzlXWmizTjky1BSg?docId=CNG.463bd595c96d72c05a3425e35e9dce59.171 , and I can't find the French version before about 5 hours ago, I think Kerry wrote it in English, got it wrong, and the French translator corrected it.

I can't speak or read much French, but I can make sense out of "l'ensemble des autres planètes". If it was in fact the person translating it into French who also had to re-write the damn thing, they're good at their job, and whatever moron wrote the English version should be canned. English was never my strong suit in school, but I'm still regularly surprised by how low the bar has sunk in its use in journalism of all things.

Already beaten to it upthread, but at first I thought they meant to say "in the solar system" rather than "in the entire universe combined," because "universe" isn't really a precise scientific term, and because I'm pretty sure that any "heavy" star has more mass than Jupiter does. But yeah, that doesn't really work either, since - - and don't let this get around - - our solar system contains a star of its own.

Weird error.

when our backs were turned -- which would explain its increase in mass, along with its apparent gas problem. (I'm always open to new interpretations of existing data.:silly:)

What else should we expect from a "gas giant??" Stop the Jupiter-bashing!! :silly: