Sidera Lodoicea /ˈsɪdərə ˌloʊdoʊˈɪsiːə/ is the name given by the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini to the four moons of Saturn discovered by him in...
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the northern part of Pisidia, Anatolia Cosmica Sidera, initial name for Galilean moons Sidera Lodoicea, name given by the astronomer Giovanni Domenico...
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discovered, Iapetus was among the four Saturnian moons labelled the Sidera Lodoicea by their discoverer Giovanni Cassini after King Louis XIV (the other...
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named the four moons he discovered (Tethys, Dione, Rhea, and Iapetus) Sidera Lodoicea (the stars of Louis) to honor King Louis XIV. Rhea was the second moon...
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grounds of the Paris Observatory. Cassini named the four new moons as Sidera Lodoicea ("the stars of Louis") to honour king Louis XIV of France. By the end...
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Cassini Main-group moon (Sidera Lodoicea) Dione Saturn IV (4) 561.4±0.4 377,420 2.737 1684 1686 Cassini Main-group moon (Sidera Lodoicea) Rhea Saturn V (5)...
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Cassini was the first to observe these four moons, which he called Sidera Lodoicea (the stars of Louis), including Iapetus, whose anomalous variations...
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named the four moons he discovered (Tethys, Dione, Rhea, and Iapetus) Sidera Lodoicea ("the stars of Louis") to honor king Louis XIV. Cassini found Dione...
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with his previous two discoveries, Cassini named these satellites Sidera Lodoicea. In his work Kosmotheôros (published posthumously in 1698), Christiaan...
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telescope of his own design. Tethys, Dione, Rhea and Iapetus (the "Sidera Lodoicea") were discovered between 1671 and 1684 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini...
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