| 1871 Science & Revelation Science and Revelation 155
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Now, let us suppose ourselves philosophers come, we will say, form the planet Jupiter, on a mission intrusted to us by the Jovians, to examine and report upon the nature of the creatures which people the four inferior planets, Terra, Venus, Mercury, and Mars.
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| 1931 Amazing Stories Sept. 549/1
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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.
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| 1950 R. Heinlein Farmer in Sky (1975) ix. 90,
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I was interested in it because I knew that the Jovian observatory was on it.
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| 1968 C. Sagan in C. Sagan & I. S. Shklovskii Intelligent Life in Universe xxiii. 327
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The nearest and best-known of the Jovian planets, Jupiter is still far less understood than Venus or Mars.
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| 1968 C. Sagan in C. Sagan & I. S. Shklovskii Intelligent Life in Universe xxiii. 329
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The other Jovian planets, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, are believed to be similar in their general structure and composition to Jupiter; but since they are further from the Sun, their cloudtops are colder, and since they lie further from us, they are more difficult to study.
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| 1976 B.N. Malzberg Best of Barry N Malzberg 9
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As the Jovians overcame his increasingly feeble struggles and slapped their rescusitator [sic] -and-chains upon him and prepared for the triumphal return to the mother ship for the purposes of capture and the ensuing and long-delayed capture of Earth, Smith was not so sure.
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| 1984 K.S. Robinson Icehenge (1990) 211
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Nearly half of the first Jovian colonies were her projects, as I understand it.
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| 1986 J. D. Barrow & F. J. Tipler Anthropic Cosmological Principle 511
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The arguments which demonstrate this yield three testable predictions: (1) there is no life with an information content greater than or equal to that possessed by terrestrial bacteria in the atmospheres of Jupiter and the other Jovian planets; (2) there is no life with the above lower bound on the information content in the atmosphere of Venus, nor on its surface; (3) there is no life with these properties on Mars.
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| 1990 G. Bear Queen of Angels (1991) i.iv. 18
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The planet‥is quite Jovian, very pretty.
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| 1993 K. S. Robinson Green Mars 159
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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.
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| 1998 G. Cox Assignment: Eternity xvii. 224
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Didn't you know I won the Jovian Triathlon back in '59?
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| 2000 A. Reynolds Revelation Space xix. 302
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Then came two smaller sub-Jovian gas worlds, hardly giants at all, then a Plutonian world—not much more than a captured cometary husk, with two attendant moons.
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