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."

Comments

Re:Trojans schmojans

[Dorothy 86]

perhaps, but where elementary calculus fails us, making up numbers lets us fly!

Maybe it shouldn't work the way it does, but then again, Helicopters (according to physics) can't fly.

Re:Why Greek / Roman names?

[Anonymous Coward]

You're a fucking idiot, and that song really sucks.

Re:Moon = a common term for natural satellites

[tvadakia]

Tard eh? You're so awesome at putting people down. I wasn't being cleaver, was just recounting what I've learned from the days of HS, which the proper terminology for calling the "moons" around other planets is satellites. Yay for Wikipedia, I'm glad it's always 100% accurate. Put me down again, it shows how cleaver YOU are...