Leda is a small moon of Jupiter, discovered on 14 September 1974 by the American astronomer Charles Kowal from photographic plates taken at Palomar Observatory in California. It was the thirteenth Jovian moon to be found, and the first discovered since 1951. It orbits far beyond the large Galilean moons, well outside the planet's inner moons, and belongs to the Himalia group, a family of moons that probably formed from the break-up of a larger body. Leda is only a few kilometers in radius and was named after the mythological Leda, the mother of Helen of Troy and a lover of Zeus, whose Roman counterpart is Jupiter.
Before and after
- 30 July 1974Birth of Hilary Swank
- 6 August 1974Establishment of Los Katíos National Park
- 20 August 1974Birth of Amy Adams
- from 12 September 1974 to 4 June 1991Ethiopian Civil War
- 14 September 1974Discovery of Leda
- 30 October 1974The Rumble in the Jungle
- 11 November 1974Birth of Leonardo DiCaprio
- 12 November 1974Registration Convention
- 18 November 1974Founding of International Energy Agency
More in Universe & space
- 16 February 1948Discovery of Miranda
- 4 March 1979Discovery of Metis
- 24 April 1990Launch of Hubble Space Telescope
- 1998Supernovae show that cosmic expansion is accelerating
- 10 April 2019The first image of a black hole
- 25 December 2021Launch of James Webb Space Telescope
The era
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