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Sinope (Turkish Sinop) is a city on the Black Sea, in the region of Galatia in modern-day Turkey.


Sinope ("sah NOH pee") is the outermost of Jupiter's known moons. It was discovered either by [Seth Barnes Nicholson]? at [Lick Observatory]? in 1914 or by P. Melotta at Greenwich?, England in July 1914. It is named after a woman said to have been unsuccessfully(!) courted by Zeus.


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