The Cassini spacecraft which is now orbiting around Saturn has identified two new 'moons' orbiting around Saturn. Now the question is how large does a rock have to be before it is classified to be a moon? I bet there new discoveries will end up not being classified as moons but rather as rocks orbiting around the gas giant.
S/2004 S2. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute See: http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/040816newmoons.html for more on this story. |
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