2015 Event NASA's New Horizons probe reestablishes contact to transmit the first close photos of Pluto and its moons; the probe launched in 2006 and has traveled over 3 billion miles; it will continue transmitting data for the next 16 months 2013 Event Planet Pluto receives names for its fourth and fifth moons; the International Astronomical Union names them Kerberos and Styx 1989 Event NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 and 1989 N24 1986 Event Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons 1905 Birthday Gerard Kuiper, Dutch/U.S. astronomer, moons of Uranus, Neptune 1858 Birthday William Pickering, Boston, astronomer, 9th and 10th moons of Saturn 1787 Event Titania and Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel 1625 Birthday Giovanni D Cassini, Perinaldo, France, discoverer, 4 moons of Saturn 1610 Event German astronomer Simon Marius 1st discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially report it, Galileo does on July 1 1610
