Basic Europa info:
Jupiter has four major (Galilean) moons:
Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto (in order of increasing
distance from Jupiter)
Formation: circum-Jupiter disk (check out the densities!)
Mass = 4.8 x 10^25 g (0.01 Earth masses or about 0.6 Moon masses)
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/
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