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The frequently-updating moon counts of Jupiter and Saturn also bring up the issue of having to update the charts for every new moon announced. Unfortunately, pretty much all of the graphs and charts documenting the moon counts and orbital properties of Jupiter and Saturn's irregulars are outdated and in dire need of updating. For example, this moon count timeline File:Outer planet moons.svg hasn't been updated since 2019 and its author User:StewartIM hasn't been active since 2020. Unfortunately, modifying it is beyond my ability since I don't have a proper SVG editor (playing around with the code in a text editor also doesn't work). I wonder if we could replace it with Template:Graph:Chart, but I'm not sure how it works yet.
Same goes for File:TheIrregulars JUPITER.svg; it's outdated since 2006, the author has been inactive for a long time, and it's in a SVG format I can't edit easily. A lot of their graphics have been used for irregular moon articles and suffer from being outdated.
I admit my own orbit diagram graphics (i.e. File:Jupiter irregular moon orbits Jan 2021.png are also outdated, but I'm holding off until JPL releases accurate SPICE trajectories for the newest moons. In reality, the irregulars never orbit in closed ellipses and the SPICE trajectories should reflect this ( example). Nrco0e ( talk) 09:38, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
Simulations suggest that, while the disk had a relatively high mass at any given moment, over time a substantial fraction (several tens of a percent) of the mass of Jupiter captured from the solar nebula was passed through it.
Several tens of percentage points? Several tenths of a percentage point? I don’t have the book that is the source. JDAWiseman ( talk) 20:47, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
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In the table of orbit data for the moons, I wish to add a translation of the number of days to hours, similar to the first 4 moons for the next 2 moons. for Io add "(+42h 18min 17.28s)" and for Europa add "(+84h 36min 43.2s)" source: take the number of days in the orbit × 24 for the number of hours, then take the decimal and × by 60 for the number of minutes, then take the decimal for the last time × 60, and that is the number of seconds. Desertmantaray ( talk) 18:34, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
I think your table got the value way wrong. It is not 0.340 it is 0.252 according to your own article on Themisto, and it is 0.2424 according to http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/jupiter-moons/themisto/by-the-numbers/ 47.18.157.160 ( talk) 18:47, 25 September 2023 (UTC)