Jovian adj.
of or relating to the planet Jupiter
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1799
The Jovian system… The motion of Jupiter’s four moons or satellites.
Adams's Lectures on Natural & Experimental Philosophy (ed. 2) IV. xliii. App. 203 -
1931
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Edward E. Smith
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‘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.
Spacehounds of IPC in Amazing Stories Sept. 549/1 -
1950
Robert A. Heinlein
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I was interested in it because I knew that the Jovian observatory was on it.
Farmer in Sky (1975) ix. 90
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1984
Kim Stanley Robinson
Nearly half of the first Jovian colonies were her projects, as I understand it.
Icehenge (1990) 211 -
1990
Greg Bear
The planet…is quite Jovian, very pretty.
Queen of Angels (1991) .iv. 18 -
1993
Kim Stanley Robinson
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.
Green Mars (new ed.) 159 -
1998
Greg Cox
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Didn’t you know I won the Jovian Triathlon back in '59?
Assignment: Eternity xvii. 224 -
2019
Daniel Abraham
Ty Franck
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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.
Tiamat’s Wrath xi. 113
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Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 2019 cite from "James S. A. Corey".
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