Amalthea

Amalthea is a moon of Jupiter.

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Jupiter's storms and its 'potato' moon Amalthea stun in new NASA Juno probe images

Astronomer Edward Barnard discovered Amalthea, the fifth satellite of Jupiter, using an eyepiece that yielded 520x on the 36-inch Lick Observatory refractor. Barnard observed asteroid Juno at 1,430x and 1,700x to make disk measurements between 0.2" and 0.26"