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Twelve New Moons Found for Saturn

Posted by timothy on from the eleven-moons-and-a-battle-station dept.

sebFlyte writes "Auntie is reporting that astronomers have found 12 new moons orbiting Saturn. Most of these are thought to be captured bodies, and they bring the total number of Saturn's moons up to 46, which is 17 short of Jupiter's total of 63. The new moons don't seem to have been named yet."

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  1. hmm, lots of moons there.... by Malor · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If they haven't already used it, at least one of these moons should be 'Sagan'. :-)

  2. My Suggestion by tod_miller · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One should be called 'Sofia'. (with an f)

    Sofia literally means 'wisdom' in Greek and I guess it is through our advancement as a society that we produce the technology to find these moons (or better classify them).

    Now that might not be wisdom, but it is a nice name!

    Lets petition it! who do we write to? :D

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