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Saturn solidifies its title as moon king with the discovery of 128 new moons (cbc.ca)
20 points by handfuloflight 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


First they discovered 64 new moons (a few years ago), and now they discovered an additional 128?

What's next, they'll discover an extra 256 as well in a few years?


At this rate, in just 30 more years they'll have discovered 261,888!

https://xkcd.com/605


"Sara Mazrouei, a planetary scientist and educational developer at Humber Polytechnic, says that while we tend to think of a spherical shape when we hear the word moon, anything that orbits a planet, or another body in space that is not a sun, is considered a moon. "

By that definition nothing beats earth with all the satellites and space junk.

So, something is wrong (either the definition, the quote is missing "natural", or picking Saturn as extraordinary).




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