Minor moons of Jupiter. Artwork of a collection of small rocks (grey) orbiting Jupiter (centre). The path of the orbit is also shown (white ring). It

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Minor moons of Jupiter. Artwork of a collection of small rocks (grey) orbiting Jupiter (centre). The path of the orbit is also shown (white ring). It is thought that the smallest moons of Jupiter may be swarms of ice and rocks clustered together by gravity, and not true moons. The four largest of Jupiter's moons are also shown (right of Jupiter). Jupiter, the largest planet of the solar system, has a diameter of 142,984 kilometres (km). Its largest moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto; in order from Jupiter), are within 2,000,000 km of Jupiter and a few thousand kilometres wide. The outer moons are tens of kilometres wide and some are over 20,000,000 km from Jupiter.

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