What is the distance from Deimos to Jupiter?

Question

What is the distnace from Mars's moon Deimos to Jupiter? If you cannot find that out just find out the distance from Mars to Jupiter. Thanks..

Answer 1

Jupiter is 778 million kms or 483 million miles from the sun and mars is 228 million kilometers or 137 million miles from the sun. So when we substract the distance of jupiter from mars we get the difference that will be 550 million kilometers or 346 million miles.

Therefore the distance between jupiter and mars is 550 million kilometers or 346 million miles.

Now let me come to your question of distance between deimos and mars. As you may be knowing the distance between mars and deimos is 23,460 km or 14,573 miles

So when deimos are in a straight line from the sun, the farthest distance between deimos and jupiter would be 550.02346 million kms or 346.01457 and the closest distance would be 549.97654 million kms or 345.98543 million miles.

Hope this helped a little!

Answer 2

Since everything in the solar system is in motion the distance will be variable, depending on where Mars, Deimos and Jupiter are in their respective orbits.

The distance will range between the point at which Jupiter is at perihelion (closest point to the sun), Mars is at aphelion (furthest point from the sun) on the same side of the sun, and Deimos is between them, and that when Jupiter is at aphelion, Mars is at aphelion on the other side of the sun, and Deimos lies the other side of Mars from the sun.

So, with numbers from NASA's factsheets on Mars and Jupiter, we find the following.

Mars perihelion: 206,620,000km
Mars aphelion: 249,230,000km

Jupiter perihelion: 740,520,000km
Jupiter aphelion: 826,620,000km

Deimos orbits Mars at 23,400km (its orbit is nearly circular, with the difference between nearest and closest being only a few km)

So, shortest distance Jupiter to Deimos = Jupiter perihelion - Mars aphelion - Deimos orbital radius

= 740,520,000 - 249,230,000 - 23,400 = 491,266,600km

Greatest distance Jupiter to Deimos = Jupiter aphelion + Mars aphelion + Deimos orbital radius

= 816,620,000 + 249,230,000 + 23400 = 1,065,873,400km

Answer 3

The minimum distance between Mars and Jupiter is 550 million kilometers, but it could be as much as 1006 million kilometers when Mars and Jupiter are on opposite sides of the sun.