WASHINGTON - Saturn is now being recognised as the"moon king" of our solar system, with astronomers spotting 20 more of them orbiting the giant ringed planet, bringing its total count to 82 - three more than Jupiter.
One of the moons orbits at an astounding distance of about 15 million miles from Saturn, farther away than any of its other moons. By comparison, Earth's moon orbits about 240,000 miles from the planet. A number of the moons appear to be fragments of once-larger moons that broke up in long-ago collisions with other moons or passing comets or asteroids, Sheppard said. That is similar to some of the 79 moons orbiting Jupiter.
Only Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, is larger. Saturn formed with the other planets and the sun about 4.5 billion years ago.
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