Saturn adds 62 moons bringing total satellites to 145

An international team of astronomers has discovered 62 additional moons in orbit around Saturn, bringing the ringed planet's grand total to 145 - more than any other planet in our solar system. A team led by Dr. Edward Ashton, a postdoctoral fellow at Taiwan's Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, used a method known as "shift and stack" to find new moons around Saturn. Any orbiting body identified as a potential moon is monitored for several years until it can me confirmed as moons. All of the newly discovered moons are considered irregular moons which have a large, elliptical, and inclined orbits.

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By Tim Binnall / Coast to Coast AM News Editor

Tim Binnall is the news editor for the Coast to Coast AM website as well as the host of the pioneering paranormal podcast Binnall of America. For more than a decade and over the course of hundreds of BoA programs, he has interviewed a vast array of researchers, spanning a wide spectrum of paranormal genres and ranging from bonafide esoteric icons to up-and-coming future players in 'the field.' A graduate of Syracuse University, Binnall aims to maintain an outsider's perspective on the paranormal world with a distinct appreciation for its absurdities and a keen interest in the personalities and sociology of esoteric studies.

(Source: coasttocoastam.com; May 13, 2023; https://tinyurl.com/2q7cjegk)
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