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An international team of astronomers announced Wednesday it has discovered four more moons orbiting Saturn, apparently putting the gas giant back on top of the heap as the planet with the greatest number of known satellites. ... Four more moons discovered orbiting Saturn. ; By Andrew Bridges; Pasadena Bureau Chief; posted:
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Between 1997 and 1999, the same team discovered a total of five new moons of Uranus. All five, like the newly discovered four outer moons of Saturn, are irregular satellites.
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He discovered four of Saturn's moons (Tethys, Dione, Rhea, and Iapetus) and a dark division in Saturn's rings (called the Cassini Division) ... Galileo discovered the rings of Saturn (1610), was the first person to see the four major moons of Jupiter (1610), observed the phases of Venus, studied sunspots,
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Later in the 1600's, Jean-Dominique Cassini, a French-Italian astronomer, discovered four more moons of Saturn: Iapetus (1671), Rhea (1672), Tethys and Dione (1684). Not suprisingly, these moons are the next largest with diameters ranging from Tethys (1060 km) to Rhea (1530 km). Cassini noted that, while Iapetus was on...
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An unprecedented surge in planetary moon discoveries continued this week as astronomers reported the discovery of four more moons orbiting Saturn, ... The four moons discovered in late October, S/2000 S 1 through S/2000 S 4, have magnitudes between 20 and 22, corresponding to diameters between 10 and 50 kilometers based...
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Four new moons have been discovered orbiting Saturn, bringing the total around the ringed planet to 22. ... Saturn has become the planet with the greatest number of known moons, 22, following the discovery of four new satellites around it. ... Saturn's only previously known irregular satellite Phoebe was discovered in 1898.
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An international team of eight "satellite hunters," astronomers who pluck tiny specks of light out of the distant solar system, has discovered four new outer moons of Saturn orbiting at least 15 million kilometers (more than 9 million miles) from the surface of the giant planet. ... Are Saturn's Rings Disappearing?
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The new moons have diameters ranging from 19 to 34 miles. ... and A. S. Rivkin, Lowell Observatory and Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, report: "We have discovered four probable satellites of Saturn, from twenty-seven 400-s images taken in the 890-nm methane band with the HST Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 during an 11-hr span...
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