05-10-2023, 06:23 AM
The CFHT on Mauna Kea has discovered several new moons orbiting Saturn. When I was a kid I could name the moons around Jupiter and Saturn but now it's impossible to remember them all, Jupiter currently has 95 moons and Saturn now has 117.
"Since last week, the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) Minor Planet Center has updated the list of moons. Sunday passed Saturn hundreds of confirmed moons, and since tuesday The counter is even at 117. For comparison: in November last year the counter was “only” at 83.
The newly discovered moons were captured between 2019 and 2021 using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The fact that they have not been found before is because they are small (sometimes only two kilometers in diameter) or they are relatively far from the planet. The results were last year Already posted And this month, some of those candidate moons were officially confirmed."
https://www.taylordailypress.net/saturn-...red-moons/
"Since last week, the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) Minor Planet Center has updated the list of moons. Sunday passed Saturn hundreds of confirmed moons, and since tuesday The counter is even at 117. For comparison: in November last year the counter was “only” at 83.
The newly discovered moons were captured between 2019 and 2021 using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The fact that they have not been found before is because they are small (sometimes only two kilometers in diameter) or they are relatively far from the planet. The results were last year Already posted And this month, some of those candidate moons were officially confirmed."
https://www.taylordailypress.net/saturn-...red-moons/