Jupiter moon Himalia discovered

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3 December, 1904

Working from the Lick Observatory in California, Charles Dillon Perrine discovered the Jupiter moon Himalia on 3rd December 1904. It was named after the nymph who bore three sons of Zeus. Himalia is the sixth largest (size-wise) moon of Jupiter.

Amalthea, the fifth moon of the planet Jupiter, was discovered a few years before by astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard.