Thursday, 17 March 2016

Astrognome Scrapbook Phoebe

Phoebe

On March 17th 1899 Phoebe, one of Saturn’s moons was discovered by the American astronomer W.H .Pickering. It is a small irregular satellite only about 200 kilometres across. 


It was the first satellite to be discovered photographically.

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