What's New

• 2004 Feb 21: fixed lots of broken links; now using CSS and html 4.01 features
• 2002 May 17: 11 more new Jovian moons discovered by Sheppard et al!
• 2001 Jan 09: 11 new Jovian moons discovered by Sheppard et al!
• 2000 Nov 22: 2 more Saturnian moons announced by Gladman et al
• 2000 Oct 26: 4 new Saturnian moons announced by Gladman et al
• 2000 Aug 22: official IAU names for 5 new Uranian moons
• 2000 Jul 25: S/1999 J 1, new moon of Jupiter
• 1999 Jul 31: two more Uranian moons
• 1999 May 19: Uranus's new moon 1986 U 10
• 1998 Sep 16: The Nine Planets Bookstore opens
• 1998 May 01: Uranus's new moons named Caliban and Sycorax
• 1998 Mar 05: Ice on the Moon confirmed!
• 1997 Nov 17: added Galileo images of Jupiter's 4 inner moons
• 1997 Nov 03: two new moons of Uranus discovered!
• 1997 Oct 23: added 253 Mathilde page
• 1997 Oct 15: Cassini launched successfully
• 1997 Sep 17: Mars has a global magnetic field
• 1997 Jun 27: first images of 253 Mathilde
• 1996 Nov 17: images of Phobos from Phobos 2
• 1996 Nov 8: major face lift
• 1996 Aug 12: first Galileo image of Europa
• 1996 Aug 7: preliminary evidence of life on Mars!!
• 1996 Aug 2: fixed many stale links to JPL
• 1996 Jul 10: new info and links to Galileo images of Ganymede
• 1996 May 4: new info about the interior of Io from Galileo; cosmetic changes
• 1996 Apr 30: added page about the origin of the solar system
• 1996 Apr 22: added an image of Leda
• 1996 Apr 22: added Arabic names to the Planetary Linguistics page
• 1996 Mar 25: added amateur images to the seeing the solar system page
• 1996 Mar 10: added a page about seeing the solar system
• 1996 Mar 7: new HST images of Pluto
• 1996 Jan 22: updated Jupiter page with preliminary info from the Galileo probe
• 1996 Jan 17: info and references to the newly discovered planetary systems orbiting 70 Virginis and 47 Ursae Majoris
• 1995 Oct 17: preliminary info about a planetary companion to the star 51 Pegasi
• 1995 Oct 08: new info about the new Saturnian satellites (but the situation is still confused)
• 1995 Oct 05: added a mirror in Korea
• 1995 Sep 28: added a page about other solar systems
• 1995 Sep 23: added mirrors in Italy and Brazil
• 1995 Sep 15: added a mirror in Hungary
• 1995 Sep 13: added a mirror in India
• 1995 Sep 11: improved the Planetary Linguistics page
• 1995 Sep 6: added a mirror in Hong Kong
• 1995 Aug 23: added mirrors in Greece and Italy
• 1995 Aug 10: added another Japanese mirror
• 1995 Aug 3: added an image of a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite (finally!)
• 1995 Jul 28: added a page about possible new satellites of Saturn (including an HST image)
• 1995 Jul 26: added references to USGS nomenclature pages
• 1995 Jul 23: added info about observing the planets and links to Mike Harvey's charts
• 1995 Jul 18: added California mirror site
• 1995 Jul 03: added Japanese mirror site (and another on 7/9)
• 1995 Jun 20: added additional data page
• 1995 Jun 18: added references to many new movies from Calvin Hamilton of LANL
• 1995 Jun 17: added a reference to an image of Clyde Tombaugh
• 1995 Jun 16: added an image from HST's recent detection of small Kuiper Belt objects
• 1995 Jun 16: added summaries of the rings of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune
• 1995 Jun 15: inline images of Metis and Thebe
• 1995 Jun 14: new tidbits on the Hypothetical Planets page
• 1995 May 24: new large inline image of Venus
• 1995 May 16: added image of Pandora, Prometheus and Saturn's F ring
• 1995 Apr 21: info and images of 4 Vesta
• 1995 Apr 21: new HST images of Neptune
• 1995 Apr 21: What's New page
• 1995 Apr 11: Copyright page
• 1995 Mar 28: new HST images of Mars and Venus
• 1994 Nov 16: The Nine Planets is the Cool Site of the Day
• 1994 Oct 22: first copy at SEDS
• 1994 Oct 13: first "publication" notice
• 1994 Jul 27: completed first draft (somewhat delayed by SL9 week)

See also: What's New at LANL.