Even so momentous a discovery did not mean that the likes of Synnott had leave simply to present himself at Stone's office...
Well, he said at last, with a smile, it looks like you've found yourself a moon.
Synnott beamed back, sent his letter to the IAU, and at length got a response, which included a list of mythological names he could choose for the moon.
He settled on Thebe, a nymph of the Greek god Zeus and the Roman god Jupiter, and with that, the solar system got just a tiny bit bigger.
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