User:Nrco0e/Notes/Irregular moons

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Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons

Photometric parameters of irregular satellites: http://nsdb.imcce.fr/multisat/parcohe.htm

Discovery circumstances

Jupiter

1999

2000

  • Mauna Kea
    (2.2-m UH; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (2.2-m UH; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (2.2-m UH; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (2.2-m UH; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (2.2-m UH; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (2.2-m UH; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (2.2-m UH; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (2.2-m UH; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (2.2-m UH; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (2.2-m UH; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (2.2-m UH; 568)

2001

  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)

2002

  • Mauna Kea
    (2.2-m UH; 568)

2003

  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)

2010

  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)
  • Mauna Kea
    (3.6-m CFHT; 568)

2011

2016

2017

  • Cerro Tololo
    (4.0-m DECam; 807)
  • Cerro Tololo
    (4.0-m DECam; 807)
  • Cerro Tololo
    (4.0-m DECam; 807)
  • Cerro Tololo
    (4.0-m DECam; 807)
  • Cerro Tololo
    (4.0-m DECam; 807)
  • Cerro Tololo
    (4.0-m DECam; 807)
  • Cerro Tololo
    (4.0-m DECam; 807)
  • Cerro Tololo
    (4.0-m DECam; 807)
  • Cerro Tololo
    (4.0-m DECam; 807)

2018

  • Cerro Tololo
    (4.0-m DECam; 807)

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

Discovery announcements

Jupiter

Callirrhoe

1999 (17 moons; +1)

2001 (28 moons; +11)

2002 (40 moons; +12)

2003 (61 moons; +21)

2004 (63 moons; +2)

2011-2012 (65 moons; +2)

2012 (67 moons; +2)

Note: Dia was long lost and was not counted as a satellite until it was rediscovered in 2015. Therefore the counts would have been one less (66, 64, 62, etc.), though I include Dia here for simplicity purposes.

2017 (69 moons; +2)

2018 (79 moons; +10)

Saturn

Ymir

2000 (30 moons; +12)

2003 (31 moons; +1)

2005 (46 moons; +12)

2006 (56 moons; +9)

2007 (59 moons; +3)

2019 (82 moons; +20)

Uranus

Caliban

1997 (17 moons; +2)

1999 (21 moons; +3)

2002 (24 moons; +3)

2003 (27 moons; +1)

Neptune

Psamathe

2002 (11 moons; +3)

2003 (13 moons; +2)

Numbering and naming of irregular satellites

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

Gallery

Orbits and positions of Solar System irregular satellites as 1 Jan 2021