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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr poem “Just a Little Crazy”, and her poems “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” (written on 7/15/19, the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter), and “Kuiper Belt Ferryman” (for New Horizons space probe photographing Pluto and Charon 7/13/15) live 7/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr poem “Just a Little Crazy”, and her poems “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” (written on 7/15/19, the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter), and “Kuiper Belt Ferryman” (for New Horizons space probe photographing Pluto and Charon 7/13/15) live 7/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr poem “Just a Little Crazy”, and her poems “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” (written on 7/15/19, the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter), and “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos) live 7/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr poem “Just a Little Crazy”, and her poems “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” (written on 7/15/19, the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter), and “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14/19, the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos) live 7/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her bonus July poem “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” (written 7/15, on the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/15/20 (on this event date) as a bonus reading for the “Poetic License open mic 7/5/20 home edition” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Earthly Gravitational Bond to the Moon” (written 7/8/19, the launch date in 2011 of the Last Space Shuttle Mission), “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14, for the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), and “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” (written 7/15, on the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/18/20 during the Zoom meeting for the Open Mic Showcase (on a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Earthly Gravitational Bond to the Moon” (written 7/8/19, the launch date in 2011 of the Last Space Shuttle Mission), “Unraveling Two More Moons” (written 7/14, for the day in 1965 of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet, and learning about the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos), and “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” (written 7/15, on the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/18/20 during the Zoom meeting for the Open Mic Showcase (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vastness of Just the right Moon” and “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” from the v185 7/21 Down in the Dirt book “Desert Bloom”, read 7/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vastness of Just the right Moon” and “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” from the v185 7/21 Down in the Dirt book “Desert Bloom”, read 7/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, “Unraveling Two More Moons”, “Vastness of Just the right Moon”, and “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” from the Down in the Dirt magazine May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Europa and Ganymede Calling”, “Unraveling Two More Moons”, “Vastness of Just the right Moon”, & “Zeus and Jupiter’s Children” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/21 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a bubble filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Zeus and Jupiter’s                  Children Janet Kuypers 7/15/19, the day in 1994 that the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collided into Jupiter When we on Earth wonder why we need gas giant planets like Jupiter and its 79 moons orbiting so far away from us — we hear the stories that these giants stopped many interstellar objects from crashing into us as our Solar System formed. But now, now we’re into our teen years in Solar System terms, they don’t do much for us when we’re deep inside the Solar System now... but silly you, you didn’t realize how tumultuous those comets could be, like Shoemaker-Levy 9, who kept getting close to Jupiter... Back in ’92 it flew extremely close to that planet, within the orbit of Jupiter’s innermost moon, Metis, flying so close that it could destroy a moon inside a planet’s Roche limit. Just give it a few years, is all we astronomy types could think, and big destruction all came true in ’94. # People make guesses, what if an interstellar body was on a crash course with Earth? We’d have to try to move it’s orbit, because blowing it up in space would only lead to many tiny fragments hitting the Earth instead... and this is exactly what the astronomy world saw with Jupiter’s gravitational pull; as Shoemaker-Levy 9 got too close, Jupiter actually tore the Comet into twenty-one pieces, raining down into many collisions with this gas giant. Some astronomers even wondered if these collisions would affect the Io torus, a torus of high-energy particles connecting Jupiter with Io. Of course we’re talking about the volcanic moon Io, we’re in love with learning about moons, we can’t help it. We love gas giants, but we can’t help but love learning about moons. How can they function where they are, how can some be so like Earth early in the Solar System. We’ve seen that even mass Comet collisions didn’t destroy the moons of Jupiter, but we’ll keep watching. Jupiter is the cosmic vacuum-cleaner of our Solar System, but this near- equivalent of a second sun manages to keep three times as many moons orbiting it our sun does with planets. # In mythology, Io was a priestess who became one of Zeus’ lovers, which is fitting when Jupiter is the counterpart to the mythical Greek Zeus, and Jupiter has so many loyal moons. Ancient Greeks called Jupiter Phaethon, “shining one”, “blazing star”, because Jupiter’s orbiting moons are as intricate as planets to us.

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