Jupiter's Eleven New Moons

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."

Comments

Re:Shoemaker

[Gogo Dodo]

Jupiter is a gas giant, there really isn't a "surface" per se. There may be a molten core in the center, but Shoemaker-Levy wasn't that big of a comet to eject matter that far out.

What's more plausable is that these moons are remnants of impacts on other moons. Read the Space.com article on the moons.

Re:trend?

[meringuoid]

I'd like to see Earth improve its moon count, as we have only one.

Actually, we sort of have two. There's an asteroid called Cruithne that has a curious orbit around the Earth and Sun...