Twenty New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn
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Twenty New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn
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Re: Twenty New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn
#2Here's a visualization I made of the Saturn system with an option to highlight the newly discovered moons:
https://typpo.github.io/spacekit/examples/saturn/index.html
Besides the 20 new moons, I find it interesting that there are 8 "lost" moons. These are objects observed as far back as 2004 - but their current locations are unknown.
Re: Twenty New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn
#3Here's a visualization I made of the Saturn system with an option to highlight the newly discovered moons: https://typpo.github.io/spacekit/examples/saturn/index.html Besides the 20 new moons, I find it interesting that there are 8 "lost" moons. These are objects observed as far back as 2004 - but their current locations are unknown.
I am in heaven playing with this.
Sorry but this is the end of my comment.
Re: Twenty New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn
#4It’s amazing that we still keep discovering so many new things in our own neighborhood, and as another comment notes, still hard to keep track of things as relatively close as Saturn’s “lost” moons.
This makes it kind of silly whenever we make confident assumptions about how much of X or Y must be out there in the rest of the Universe.
(Not to knock the efforts of people who did accurately predict many facts about faraway phenomena while being stuck on Earth.)
Re: Twenty New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn
#5Here's a visualization I made of the Saturn system with an option to highlight the newly discovered moons: https://typpo.github.io/spacekit/examples/saturn/index.html Besides the 20 new moons, I find it interesting that there are 8 "lost" moons. These are objects observed as far back as 2004 - but their current locations are unknown.
Fun. Is there a way to accelerate?
Re: Twenty New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn
#6Here's a visualization I made of the Saturn system with an option to highlight the newly discovered moons: https://typpo.github.io/spacekit/examples/saturn/index.html Besides the 20 new moons, I find it interesting that there are 8 "lost" moons. These are objects observed as far back as 2004 - but their current locations are unknown.
This, your other examples, and spacekit as a whole are absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing this link.
Re: Twenty New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn
#7Here's a visualization I made of the Saturn system with an option to highlight the newly discovered moons: https://typpo.github.io/spacekit/examples/saturn/index.html Besides the 20 new moons, I find it interesting that there are 8 "lost" moons. These are objects observed as far back as 2004 - but their current locations are unknown.
Planets sprouting new moons, flinging off old moons – reminds of the 1983 coin-op video game, 'Mad Planets':
Re: Twenty New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn
#8I wish they would open up the naming of at least one moon to whatever the internet decides to come up with, rather than restricting it to the same old boring gods and goddesses convention. That moon would probably become one of the more popular celestial bodies in the solar system based on that alone.
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#9Nooo, my sci-fi novels!!
Re: Twenty New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn
#10Here's a visualization I made of the Saturn system with an option to highlight the newly discovered moons: https://typpo.github.io/spacekit/examples/saturn/index.html Besides the 20 new moons, I find it interesting that there are 8 "lost" moons. These are objects observed as far back as 2004 - but their current locations are unknown.
Is there a reason why moons don't seem to orbit above Saturn's poles?