Elara is a moon of Jupiter and the second largest member of the Himalia group, a cluster of irregular moons that orbit far from the planet and probably came from a single captured body. It was discovered on 2 January 1905 by the American astronomer Charles Dillon Perrine at the Lick Observatory in California, shortly after he found Himalia. The two moons were found photographically, and a few more would be discovered with the same method. Elara has a diameter of under a hundred kilometers. It was named only in 1975, after a lover of Zeus in Greek mythology who was the mother of the giant Tityos.
Before and after
- 1905Founding of Galatasaray S.K.
- from 1905 to 1917Rise of Black Hundreds
- 1905Einstein's miracle year
- 1905Henry Fairfield Osborn names Tyrannosaurus rex
- 2 January 1905Discovery of Elara
- 9 January 1905Bloody Sunday
- from 22 January 1905 to 16 June 1907Russian Revolution of 1905
- 26 January 1905Discovery of Cullinan Diamond
- 2 February 1905Birth of Ayn Rand
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- 3 December 1904Discovery of Himalia
The era
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