Historical place archive

Mount Wilson in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Mount Wilson in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

3 records3 event labels1 people1938–1951

Historical events in Mount Wilson

1938

6 July 1938
Discovery of Lysithea
Seth Barnes Nicholson · Astronomy

Discovers Lysithea, an irregular satellite of Jupiter.

30 July 1938
Discovery of Carme
Seth Barnes Nicholson · Astronomy

Discovers Carme, a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.

1951

28 September 1951
Discovery of Ananke
Seth Barnes Nicholson · Astronomy

Discovers Ananke, another distant retrograde moon of Jupiter.

Provenance

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These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match United States of America and Mount Wilson. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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