of or relating to the planet Jupiter
The Jovian system… The motion of Jupiter’s four moons or satellites.
‘We'll carry off the pieces of that ship, too, Quince—we may be able to get a lot of pointers from it,’ and Brandon swung mighty tractor beams upon the severed halves of the Jovian vessel, then extended a couple of smaller rays to meet the two little figures racing across the smooth green meadow toward the Sirius.
I was interested in it because I knew that the Jovian observatory was on it.
Nearly half of the first Jovian colonies were her projects, as I understand it.
The planet…is quite Jovian, very pretty.
We would need the thrust of almost all of them to get ourselves back down into the plane of the ecliptic in time to intersect the Jovian system.
Didn’t you know I won the Jovian Triathlon back in '59?
He and Caspar and the rest of the crew wore printed flight suits with a triangle-and-curve logo that implied they worked for a gas-mining cooperative called Három Állam that worked the Jovian moons.
antedating 1799
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