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The question may mean "Was the moon Europa named by Galileo?"
The answer to that is NO.
Galileo discovered this moon, but it was named by another astronomer, called
Simon Marius.
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One of its moon was named by europa was named by Galileo?
Europa is the sixth moon of the planet Jupiter
Which planet has a moon named europa by Galileo?
Jupiter has the moon called Europa. (Galileo discovered this moon, but actually the name was given by another person.)
Which planet has a moon named Europa and named after Galileo?
The Galilean moons were named after their discoverer, Galileo Galilei. The moons (plural) that he found are the four largest satellites of Jupiter, Io, Callisto, Ganymede, and Europa.
What planets moons are named europa but founded by Galileo?
Europa was discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610.
Who discovered that Jupiter has moon?
Many astronomers have discovered Jupiter's moons. Galileo discovered the first four moons of Jupiter, named Calisto, Europa, Ganymede and Io.
What were Galileo's three moon discoveries?
4 actually, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto
What is the definition for moon?
They are the four moons which Galileo discovered: Callisto, Europa, Ganymede and Io.
What moon is the named after Phoenician princess?
Europa.
Which planet has a moon named Europa?
Jupiter
Was Jupiter's moon Europa was named after the continent of Europe True or False?
No, Europa was a roman goddess.
Europa is a moon of what planet?
Europa is one of Jupiters moons. Jupiter has many moons, but Europa is one of the four large moons that was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei (and possibly independently by Simon Marius around the same time).
Why is the moon Europa named this way?
The Europa name is after a mythical Phoenician noblewoman, Europa, who was courted by Zeus and became the queen of Crete.
