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| Keywords: Galilean moon Laplace resonance animation 2.gif Laplace resonance between Io Europa and Ganymede The labels indicate the ratios of orbital periods Europa's is twice Io's and Ganymede's is four times Io's <br> In this revision of a black and white version brief color changes are used to highlight conjunctions green or magenta for nearest-neighbor gray for non-nearest neighbor to illustrate that the conjunctions recur at the same orbital locations after making allowance for precession All nearest-neighbor conjunctions occur in the vertical axis running through the diagram Per orbit of Ganymede there are 8 occasions when at least 3 bodies line up examples of syzygy separated by successive intervals of 1/6 1/6 1/12 1/12 1/6 1/6 1/12 and 1/12 of a cycle including 2 occasions when all 4 bodies line up all oppositions of Europa involve 4-body lineups <br><span style color red >Warning do not downsize the image below its original size of 365 × 245 when used in a Wikipedia article as the animation won't move then at least not for all users </span> 2014-09-01 14 56 11 Revision of Galilean moon Laplace resonance animation gif by User Matma Rex WolfmanSF <gallery> File Galilean moon Laplace resonance animation gif Galilean moon Laplace resonance animation gif Earlier black and white version </gallery> cc-zero Uploaded with UploadWizard Galilean moons Rotation animations Animated GIF | ||||
