Simon Marius (latinized form of Simon Mayr; 10 January 1573 – 5 January 1625) was a German astronomer. He was born in Gunzenhausen, near Nuremberg, but...
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Marius is a male name, a Roman family name, and a modern surname. The name Marius was used by members of the Roman gens Maria. It is thought to be derived...
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Simon Mayer may be an alternate spelling of: Simon Marius (1573–1624), German astronomer Johann Simon Mayr (1763-1845), German composer This disambiguation...
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which were independently discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei and Simon Marius and were the first objects found to orbit a body that was neither Earth...
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Kepler, Marius agreed with Kepler's proposal and so he then proposed a naming system based on Greek mythology instead. This final Kepler/Marius proposal...
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from Earth-based telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope. Although Simon Marius is not credited with the sole discovery of the Galilean satellites, his...
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Cadmus, Heracles, Minos, Lynceus, Cepheus, and Danaus. The astronomer Simon Marius named a moon of Jupiter after Io in 1614. Because her brother was Phoroneus...
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Medicean Stars, but the names that eventually prevailed were chosen by Simon Marius. Marius discovered the moons independently at nearly the same time as Galileo...
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independently discovered by Simon Marius on 8 January 1610 and are now called Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, the names given by Marius in his Mundus Iovialis...
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Galileo, Simon Marius independently discovered moons around Jupiter, though he did not publish his discovery in a book until 1614. It was Marius's names...
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