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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/US 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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