| 1. | The first major claim of another moon of Earth was made by French astronomer Frédéric Petit, director of the Toulouse Observatory, who in 1846 announced that he had discovered a second moon in an elliptical orbit around Earth.
En 1846, l'astronome français Frédéric Petit, directeur de l'Observatoire de Toulouse, annonce la découverte d'une seconde lune ayant une orbite elliptique autour de la Terre. |
