Astronomers find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons, the most of any planet in the Solar System.
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Saturn runs rings around JupiterRatification of 128 additional moons puts the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite count The International Astronomical ...
The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...
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A Series of Cosmic Collisions Gave Saturn 128 'New' MoonsThe smashups are thought to have occurred at least 100 million years ago, but the moons they created are new to astronomers.
The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...
Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The ...
In August 2006 the International Astronomical Union General Assembly adopted a resolution to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet. The reasoning was that it didn't satisfy one of three newly defined ...
The International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet because it does not clear its orbit of other debris. Pluto was the little planet that could — until it couldn’t.
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