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Moons


1989 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 and 1989 N24

1986 Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons

1905 Gerard Kuiper, Dutch/U.S. astronomer, moons of Uranus, Neptune

1858 William Pickering, Boston, astronomer, 9th and 10th moons of Saturn

1787 Titania and Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel

1625 Giovanni D Cassini, Perinaldo, France, discoverer, 4 moons of Saturn

1610 German astronomer Simon Marius 1st discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially report it, Galileo does on July 1 1610


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