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Saturn has 12 new moons

luc
in Astronomy and Cosmology

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How many moons a planet has isn't so much counting them as defining what a moon is. Are you going to count every speck of dust?

3kms in diameter is not quite a 'speck of dust'. We have been misled into what to expect from a satellite by our own moon. It isn't so much a moon as a sister planet. (Or perhaps more accurately a daughter, given its origin.)

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