[HN Gopher] Saturn reclaims 'moon king' title from Jupiter with ... ___________________________________________________________________ Saturn reclaims 'moon king' title from Jupiter with 62 newfound satellites Author : gmays Score : 23 points Date : 2023-05-15 15:22 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.space.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.space.com) | testplzignore wrote: | > That's about two-thirds the length of Hollywood's Walk of Fame. | | Is this the unit of measurement space.com readers are most | familiar with? | EamonnMR wrote: | Please give all lengths in Rhode Islands. | birdyrooster wrote: | Is this a rhetorical question? | [deleted] | vlovich123 wrote: | What's the minimum size of a moon? Isn't every particle within | Saturn's rings technically a "moon"? | samhuk wrote: | > Saturn's system currently hosts three of these groupings -- the | Inuit group, the Gallic group and the densely populated Norse | group, all of which take their names from different mythologies. | | > All of the newfound moons of Saturn fall into one of these | three currently existing groupings. Three of the new moons belong | to the Inuit group, but the majority fit in the Norse group. | | TIL Saturn's moons are named after various human groups. | pavlov wrote: | More precisely the gods and other mythological figures from | these peoples. | samhuk wrote: | Ah, certainly. I think "Titan" is a somewhat odd name for a | human. | ghaff wrote: | I think when I was a kid I could probably have named the | canonical list of moons known at the time. I'm pretty sure that | would be a very impressive feat today. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-05-16 23:00 UTC)