Q&A: David Jewitt Co-Discoverer of Jovian Moon[zz# Astronomy - 天文
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By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 08:47 am ET
17 May 2002
It's not every day someone finds 11 moons that had gone unnoticed in the four
centuries since the telescope was invented and Galileo figured out that
Jupiter had four satellites and the Earth couldn't be the center of the
universe. Yet, remarkably, it has happened twice in the past two years -- in
January 2001 and again Thursday.
SPACE.com had some questions for the University of Hawaii's David Jewitt, one
of the researche
Senior Science Writer
posted: 08:47 am ET
17 May 2002
It's not every day someone finds 11 moons that had gone unnoticed in the four
centuries since the telescope was invented and Galileo figured out that
Jupiter had four satellites and the Earth couldn't be the center of the
universe. Yet, remarkably, it has happened twice in the past two years -- in
January 2001 and again Thursday.
SPACE.com had some questions for the University of Hawaii's David Jewitt, one
of the researche