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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. To quote: by dimator · · Score: 3, Funny

    To quote someone I don't know, and don't care to look up:

    "The Solar System consists of the Sun, Jupiter, and various other debris"

    --
    python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
  2. What about the werewolves? by gewalker · · Score: 3, Funny

    With that many moons, Jovian werewolves cannot revert to their non-lupine form except on the rarest of occasions. They probably forget how to change back entirely, probably going years with at a couple of full moons in the sky.

    I think we should establish a charitable organazation dedicated to the plight of the Jovian werewolf, deprived of the right to exist in their original form.