On Tuesday, the International Astronomical Federation believed the last discovery of 128 unknown satellites before Saturn, as it obtained a number of known natural satellites to 274.
Certification means that Saturn advances well on Jupiter, with a population of 95 known satellites.
The satellites were discovered by a team of astronomers who were used in 2023 the Canada telescope in Hawaii in Mona Kia in Hawaii to monitor Saturn.
We know almost nothing about the newly discovered satellites because they are small, far, and perhaps nothing more than rocks.
All have irregular orbits in very slope angles compared to Saturn glass and are outside the famous planet rings and outside the orbits that their main moons occupy.
Scientists who discovered the satellites called the 47 -year -old Mondlepari group, and it seems that they may be the result of a collision in an area close to the square that occurred 100 million years ago.
It is too early to kill dinosaurs for at least 30 million years.
nature Reports The discoveries have become possible through a set of time using the telescope, and the techniques that allow the sewing images that were taken together. These technologies were used to find 62 Saturn moons in 2023 before pressing again in the service of this new set of discoveries.
The International Astronomical Federation believed the satellites on Tuesday with three official documents – one describing Thirty -three moonsOther details Thirty -four And the last list 61 satellites.
They are dense but wonderful documents that list all the notes during which satellites were seen. The document that describes 33 moons has 844 line of monitoring data!
The documents also include a section that shows the details of each moon.
Satellites do not have names, and the honor of their choice appears to be apparently to Edward Ashton, a post -doctoral colleague at the Institute of Academic circles for astronomy and astronomical physics in Taiwan. Ashton is also a leadership author of a coming paper describing the newly discovered satellites, which will soon appear in the notes of the American Astronomical Society. ®