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Saturn Overtakes Jupiter As Host To Most Moons In Solar System (theguardian.com) 3
The outer moons of Saturn fall into three broad families according to how they orbit the gas giant. Two of the new prograde moons appear to belong to a group that swings around Saturn at an angle of about 46 degrees. The moons, named after Inuit mythology, may once have belonged to one far larger moon that broke apart in the distant past. The new retrograde moons appear to belong to another group named after Norse mythology and are also thought to be fragments of a much bigger parent moon that was smashed to pieces in the solar system’s violent past.
- Uranus is big enough to host several dozen moons.
Is it just me? Or could
“…smashed to pieces in the solar system’s violent past.”
Just have been written as
“…smashed to pieces.”
?when they have counted all the bits in Saturn’s rings.
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