Stephen Synnott
American astronomer
Stephen P. Synnott is an American astronomer.[1] He is also a scientist for the Voyager program.[2] He discovered several moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
He discovered Metis, Puck, Larissa, Proteus,[2] and Thebe.
The minor planet 6154 Stevesynnott was named after him.[3]
References
change- ↑ IAU Archived 2015-09-26 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 29th August 2010
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 daviddarling.info retrieved 29th August 2010
- ↑ Dictionary of minor planet names Lutz D. Schmadel page 513 retrieved 6th Sept 2010
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