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Galileo's Flyby of Almathea

An anonymous reader writes "The spectacular Galileo flybys of Jupiter, Europa and Io are largely credited with the discovery of frozen water ice and some of the earliest examples of non-solar (tidal) heating anywhere in our solar system. For the next 10 days, Galileo scientists are preparing for their next target: probing one of Jupiter's moons, Almathea, at the close-up range of 100 miles. Almathea is one of the most unusual moons in the solar system, because it gives off more heat than it receives from the Sun."

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  1. It's Amalthea, stupid by 21mhz · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I mean, I realise you Americans can't memorize all those wicked ancient names (can you spell the name of your neighbour, if anything?).
    But come on, all the poster had to do right is to cut-n-paste it from the article: Amalthea.

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