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Jupiter's Eleven New Moons

Posted by michael on from the rock-paper-scissors dept.

nautical9 writes "Yahoo is reporting that scientists have discovered 11 new moons orbiting around Jupiter, bringing the total to 39. They were discovered using the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope and one of the largest digital imaging cameras in the world. Unfortunately, very little is known about them at this point other than that they're relatively small (compared to the previously known ones), and they all have irregular orbits."

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  1. Americanism by mindhaze · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ok... I'm willing to take an "Off-Topic" hit for this, but here goes:

    I love it how american people can refer to something that is not american in such a general state. The "Canada-France-Hawaii" telescope?!! Well, FYI, Canada is composed of 10 provinces and 3 territories (or 11 prov's and 2 terr's... depending on the status of Nunavut). France, whom I'm not overly familiar with, must at least have a couple provinces, musnt it? So, to all you proud americans out there, why don't you do a bit of research on the countries you're posting about, before you just generalize!