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Old April 8th 16, 08:07 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Paul Schlyter[_3_]
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Default The Lost Moon

On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 10:15:30 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc
wrote:
Further searching led me to something on Google Books from which I

found that it
was Dr. Brian G. Marsden who proposed the unofficial names for the

moons of
Jupiter which were used by some for a time.


I first saw these namns for Jupiters outer moons in the books "The
Planets" by Patrick Moore in the early 1960's. That books sparked my
own interest in astronomy.