The new king of moons “Saturn “
Jupiter vs. Saturn who’ll win ?
In 7th of October 2019 Carnegie Mellon University for sciences said in
its report that a team of Astronomy scientists in the university
discovered a new twenty moons orbiting around Saturn
in addition to the old sixty two moons by using subaru
Telescope in Hawaii state . Scott Sheppard from Carnegie University for Science led the discovery team. He said in a statement:
Using some of the largest telescopes in the world, we are now completing the inventory of small moons around the giant planets. They play a crucial role in helping us determine how our solar system’s planets formed and evolved.
and now by this it has eighty two moons and so it
Outperform Jupiter which was the king of moons by
seventy nine moons .
Nasa said that:Saturn has 82 moons. Fifty-three moons are confirmed and
named and another 29 moons are awaiting confirmation of discovery and
official naming. Saturn's moons range in size from larger than the planet
Mercury — the giant moon Titan — to as small as a sports arena. The
moons shape, contribute and also collect material from Saturn's rings and
magnetosphere.
According to the researchers, each of the newly discovered moons is about 3 miles (5 km) in diameter. Seventeen of them orbit Saturn backwards, or in a retrograde direction, meaning their movement is opposite to the planet’s rotation around its axis. One of the newly discovered retrograde moons is the farthest known moon around Saturn.
The other three moons orbit in the same direction as Saturn rotates. Two of these three moons are closer to the planet and take about two years to travel once around Saturn. The third, and the more-distant retrograde moons, each take more than three years to complete an orbit.
The outer moons of Saturn appear to be grouped into three different clusters, according to how they orbit the planet. The newly discovered retrograde moons appear to belong to a group of moons, named after Norse mythology, thought to be fragments of a much bigger parent moon that was smashed to pieces in the solar system’s violent past. Sheppard said:
This kind of grouping of outer moons is also seen around Jupiter, indicating violent collisions occurred between moons in the Saturnian system or with outside objects such as passing asteroids or comets.



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