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Saturn's New Moons Named

sebFlyte writes "The BBC is reporting that three new moons found orbiting Saturn at the end of last year have been named. 'Two moons detected in August have been given the names Methone and Pallene, while another found in October has been provisionally named Polydeuces.' Polydeuces is also reported as being a very strange object-- a trojan moon. It sits in a spot near a larger moon where the gravitational pull of the other moon (Dione here) and the planet cancel each other out."

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  1. Re:Lagrange Points by TheKidWho · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well thats just because your slow

    That's like taking an article on gravitational wave theory and saying the tensor mathematics are more interesting because you have never been exposed to that kind of math before.