128 New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn in Mindblowing Discovery

Science Alert ^ | March 12, 2025 | Michelle Starr

[Red Badger]

That looks like a ‘Judge’ one of my buddies had in the Marines............

[OrioleFan]

To which Pluto said, “What am I?”

[Verginius Rufus]

Jupiter does have the largest moon, but only one of its 95 moons is larger than Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

Saturn gets 128 new moons. The earth only gets one new moon, and that only once a month.

I'm old enough to remember when Jupiter had 12 moons and Saturn had 9. And the planet Pluto had none.

[SaxxonWoods]

Aliens put them there!

[MRadtke]

Jupiter and Saturn each have a moon that’s larger than the planet Mercury. And several moons larger than Pluto.

[Disambiguator]

At least they didn’t find new rings around, well, you know.

[BenLurkin]

[tumblindice]

Saturn’s Werewolves must be out of control.

[Tell It Right]

These seem so small. What constitutes a “moon” versus an “asteroid”?

Exactly my thought. https://www.astronomy.com/science/multiple-mini-moons-could-be-orbiting-earth/

[one guy in new jersey]

even if you wanted to do that how would you do it

or stop doing it if you discovered that you are doing it

[Dead Corpse]

I bet they have an absolutely insane werewolf problem...

[BitWielder1]

All of those pebbles in Saturn's rings could be called moons, giving it a count in the thousands.
There should be a size range for something to be called a moon, otherwise the count simply depends on how good your observations are.
If they can demote Pluto (still have not forgiven them for that), then moons can be demoted to boulders, rocks, pebbles or dust.

[Salman]

Not just rings, but its own little asteroid belt.

[Dead Corpse]

These were the generation ships that first brought us to this solar system... We used some of them to get to Mars where war and Communism destroyed the planetary ecology.

We used our last reserves to get us here... This is our last hope unless we can re-develop the tech to get back to Mars, and then back to our ships around Saturn...

[Organic Panic]

” all blobby and potato-shaped”

Like a group of liberal protesters

[Red Badger]

I just love technical scientific jargon!............

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

Why was the previous count up 2^6 and this time it’s up 2^7? Coincidence? Software limitation? Or…? (Twilight Zone music)

[SunkenCiv]

Nice!

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[Tom Tetroxide]

Is this good news for the Moonies?

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] These moons, to be clear, are not like Earth's Moon, nice and large and pleasingly spherical. They are tiny moonlets, all blobby and potato-shaped, just a few kilometers across – what are known as irregular moons... a collision must have taken place as recently as 100 million years ago, which is a very short eyeblink of time for a planet. The location of the moons, too, within the Norse group of Saturn's moons, suggests that this is the place where the recent collision occurred. The Norse group are moons that orbit in a retrograde direction, at inclined angles, and on elliptical paths, outside Saturn's rings. Like the newly discovered moons, they, too, are relatively potatoey. [/snip]

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