Sorry, Jupiter.
, but this is the first time it has been applied to the solar system's second-largest planet, Saturn.
Though some of the moons had been spotted as early as 2019, it takes more than sighting an object close to a planet to confirm it is a moon and not anmaking a brief close passage to that planet. To change these objects from"suspected moons" to"confirmed moons" of Saturn, the astronomers had to track them for several years to ensure each is actually orbiting the gas giant.
"Tracking these moons makes me recall playing the kid's game Dot-to-Dot, because we have to connect the various appearances of these moons in our data with a viable orbit," Ashton."But with about 100 different games on the same page, and you don't know which dot belongs to which puzzle."Saturn's irregular moons may have a violent history
Saturn now has 121 known irregular moons along with its 24 regular moons. Irregular moons like these new ones tend to bunch up in groupings depending on the tilt of their orbits. Saturn's system currently hosts three of these groupings — the Inuit group, the Gallic group and the densely populated Norse group, all of which take their names from different mythologies.
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