Jupiter Reclaims Title of Planet With the Most Moons

[progree]

1. "While people have known of Jupiter's existence for at least a couple thousand years"

i can't make any sense out of that. Aside from the sun and moon, it's the 2nd brightest object in the sky (2nd to Venus, and usually brighter than Mars, and all of the above brighter than the brightest star, Sirius). So it's not like it hasn't been astoundingly visible for eons.

So are they talking about when it was realized, like Venus and Mars and Mercury and Saturn, to not be like the stars in that they wandered around the skies relative to the stars, while the stars kept the same fixed positions relative to other stars ... that was known many thousands of years ago I'm sure.

Here's some stuff on what some Greeks thought --
https://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/301/lectures/node151.html

A second Greek philosopher, Aristarchus of Samos (310-230BC), proposed an alternative model in which the Earth and the planets execute uniform circular orbits around the Sun--

I suppose that's roughly a couple thousand years ago...