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New Satellites of Jupiter Discovered

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the break-out-cigars-jupiter's-a-daddy dept.

dss902 writes "The discovery of 18 new satellites of Jupiter, bringing the total of known Jupiter satellites to 58 were made using the world's two largest digital cameras at the Subaru (8.3 meter diameter) and Canada-France-Hawaii (3.6 meter diameter) telescopes atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Recoveries were performed at the University of Hawaii 2.2 meter with help from Yanga Fernandez and Henry Hsieh also from the University of Hawaii. Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics performed the orbit fitting for the new satellites. More info here." We ran a story on the first eight, but now... eighteen.

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  1. Other uses for the powerful technology? by Mattygfunk1 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Would you rather have powerful telescopes pointed at Jupiter looking for more moons, or looking nearby for potential "dinosaur style" human-killing asteriods?

    I know which I would prefer.

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    1. Re:Other uses for the powerful technology? by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Insightful

      IANAA, but I thought that you don't really want to use the most powerful telescopes for spoting comets and asteroids. You want something that can see a relatively large area of the sky, and when you spot something moving, you zoom in with the "big guns".

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  2. Strange by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Insightful

    to think that given the size of the universe we are still discovering things that are practically on top of us. Makes you wonder what else is out there.

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  3. I Propose a New Icon by use_compress · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If scientists want to find 100 moons orbiting Jupiter, there are going to be many Slashdot articles on new Jovian moons. Thus, I propose we create a new icon for all of these articles.