Move over, Saturn: Jupiter is the solar system's new 'moon master'

Scientists have found 83 moons to date around the ringed gas giant, the second-largest planet in the solar system. However, astronomers have also found tons of rocks down to about 2 miles wide around Saturn without yet tracking the objects precisely, according to. As instruments become capable of studying these smaller moons, Jupiter may have to relinquish its new title back to Saturn. Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institute for Science in Washington, D.C.

The nine particularly distant moons also have retrograde orbits, meaning that they circle the gas giant in the opposite direction of its rotation; the inner Jovian moons, in contrast, have"prograde" orbits in the same direction as the planet's rotation. The new moons' retrograde orbits imply that Jupiter's immense gravitational influence may have captured these moons, with the smaller ones possibly the remains of larger bodies broken apart by collisions.

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Gotta update my lessons!

Moon Mastuh

Super hyped about this! 😍

Awesome pic of giant Jupiter 😎

Je pense oui je pense. Que cette planète unique par ses anneaux, aurait ou bien passé ou échappé à une petite galaxie, et ces anneaux ne sont que des restes.

If we could somehow stand on the surface of Jupiter, I wonder what the sky would look like with all those Moons.

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