Megaclite articles
Deeper dives into Megaclite, sourced from NASA, JPL and the scientific literature.
“Magaclite”: the moon with a typo
How a one-letter mistake in 2002 still echoes through research papers and catalogues.
Read →November 2000: eleven new moons of Jupiter
How a graduate student, a CCD camera and computer algorithms changed the count of Jupiter’s moons.
Read →Megaclite’s stretched, backward orbit
Why Megaclite’s distance from Jupiter swings by around 20 million km.
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