Edward Emerson Barnard
Edward Emerson Barnard (December 16, 1857 – February 6, 1923) was an American astronomer. He was commonly known as E. E. Barnard.He was known as a gifted observational astronomer.
In 1892, he discovered Amalthea, the first moon of Jupiter after the original four Galilean satellites. This was the last satellite discovered by visual observation (rather than by examining photographic plates or other recorded images).
In 1916, he discovered Barnard's star, which has the greatest proper motion of any star known, and is the second nearest star system to the Sun, second only to the Alpha Centauri system.
He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1897 and the Bruce Medal in 1917.
There are craters named after him on the Moon and on Mars, as well as Barnard Regio on Ganymede, and an asteroid 819 Barnardiana.
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