Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1892 — Not One Lone Moon. [ARTICLE]

Not One Lone Moon.

The solar system has twenty moons. Of theso the earth boasts but one, Latin name, Luna; Mars, two, discovered by Aseph Hall, A', gust 19, 1877, named by him Doimus and Phobus, at the suggestion of Rev. H. G. Madden, of Eaton, Mass. Jupiter has four, all discovered by Galileo, who saw three of them January 7, 1610, and the fourth on the 13th of the samo mouth. As a rule they are not called by names, but as 1,2, 3, and 4, according to their nearness to the planet around which they revolve. The names 10, Europa, Ganymede, and Caliisto, proposed by Mayer, have never been generally used, says the Philadelphia Press. Batum has eight moons, named in order of their nearness: 1, Mimas; 2, Enceladus; 3, Tethys; 4, Dione; 6, Rhea; 6, Titan; 7, Hyperion; 8, Japetus. Titan was discovered by Huygens, March 25, 1655; Japetus, by Cassini, October 25, 1671; Rhea, by Cassini, December, 24, 1672; Tethys and Dione, by Cassini, in March, 1684; Enceladus, by Herschel, September, 1789; and HySerion, by Professor Bond, Cambridge, lass., September 16, 1848. Uranus has four moons, named in order of their nearness, viz: 1, Ariel; 2, Umbriel; 3, Titania; and 4, Oberon. Titania and Ob ron were discovered by Herschel, January 11, 1787; Umbriel by Otto Struve, October 8, 1847; and Ariel by Lassel, September 14, 1847, Neptune, like the earth, has but one moon. Had you figured on there being so many moons in our solar system?