Sinope is one of Jupiter's irregular outer moons, found by the American astronomer Seth Nicholson at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California. It follows a distant, tilted orbit in the retrograde direction, opposite to Jupiter's rotation, which suggests that it is a captured body rather than one formed alongside the planet. Sinope is small, only a few tens of kilometres across, and belongs to the Pasiphae group of retrograde moons, which may be fragments of a single broken-up object. It was long known simply as Jupiter IX and received its present name in 1975, after a nymph from Greek myth whom Zeus pursued.
Before and after
- 20 April 1914Ludlow Massacre
- 29 May 1914Birth of Tenzing Norgay
- 2 June 1914Birth of Yuri Andropov
- 28 June 1914Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- 21 July 1914Discovery of Sinope
- from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918World War I
- from 28 July 1914 to 3 November 1918Serbian campaign
- 31 July 1914Birth of Louis de Funès
- from August 1914 to October 1918Kurdish rebellions during World War I
More in Universe & space
- 1919Founding of Einstein Tower
- 15 November 1927Discovery of 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann
- 1928Founding of Purple Mountain Observatory
- 18 February 1930Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
- 1933Fritz Zwicky infers dark matter
- 14 May 1935Founding of Griffith Observatory
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