Which planet in the solar system has the most moons.

[jorgebgt]

Which planet in the solar system has the most moons.

There was a competition between Jupiter and Saturn, but now an international team of astronomers has just given a clear winner and that is Saturn, because they have discovered the impressive number of 128 previously unknown moons evidently and those 128 moons orbit the Lord of the Rings Saturn.

This discovery, this discovery has been officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union and brings the total number of known moons of the Ringed Planet to 274, leaving behind Jupiter with its only 95 moons. These moons are evidently not like the Earth's moon, that is, they are neither large nor spherical, they are rather tiny.

These moons are not like the Earth's, ours is quite large, it is the fourth largest Moon in the solar system, remember and they are actually irregular and small, they are just a few kilometers in diameter, here we come to a controversial topic in astronomy and that is What is the minimum size that a natural satellite must have to be considered a moon, officially there is no minimum size that is why it is controversial, there is debate and this is a problem because then we could come to consider that each of the fragments of Saturn's rings could be called a moon and then we would be talking about millions of moons, although in practice what is considered a moon is one that is at least more than 1 km in diameter. If it has less, it would be a minimoon, it would be another different concept, which is why it is controversial, some new term would have to be invented.

According to the researchers who have published this statement, they believe due to the location and the angle and the orbit of these moons, that all of them come from a collision that occurred about 100 million years ago, which is a fairly short time for the history of a planet and curiously coincides with the date that some researchers give for the origin of the rings of Saturn, it is suspected that about 100 million years ago a moon of Saturn was disintegrated perhaps by the impact with a comet or an asteroid or with another moon of Saturn and it is those remains that ended up becoming the Rings that we see now, Saturn is also in the news because its rings are going to disappear.

Saturn's rings are going to disappear. If you have a telescope and look at Saturn in these days of March, you will surely not see its rings. It is a temporary optical effect. From Earth, visually, Saturn seems to wobble like a top with the passage of time. Therefore, the angle at which we see Saturn's rings changes little by little.

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Comments

[kiwithinker]

It's incredible, really, that there is still so much to discover about the planets. Finding this many extra moons shows it's still worth looking. A bit like finding asteroids that might come close to Earth, it's a big place to look and things can be hard to find.

[jorgebgt]

That's right, mostly because of the new tools that are being used in telescopes.

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