“Saturn Becomes the First Planet with Over 100 Moons Discovered by Scientists”

By analyzing a series of images taken successively every three hours, researchers were able to examine 62 new moons that were previously too small and blurry to detect.

Some of the smallest recently discovered moons of the planet Saturn are only 2.5 kilometers wide.

The sixty-two newly discovered moons are irregular satellites, namely natural satellites that follow orbits far from their planet and sometimes rotate in the opposite direction from the planet Saturn.

Most of these moons “clump” with other moons in similar retrograde orbits, implying they originated from a parent moon that disintegrated millions of years ago.

Reporting from the Live Science page, Saturday (13/5), Brett Gladman, professor of astronomy and astrophysics from the University of British Columbia said,

“Along with modern telescope upgrades, we can find medium-sized moons orbiting the planet Saturn in the opposite direction it disintegrated 100 million years ago.”

The new moons are slated to be recognized by the International Astronomical Union, a group of more than 12,000 researchers who define celestial bodies.

Intern Reporter: Qaulan Maruf Indra

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