Saturn's Sixtieth Moon Discovered

"We detected the 60th moon orbiting Saturn using the Cassini spacecraft's powerful wide-angle camera," said Carl Murray, a Cassini imaging team scientist from Queen Mary, University of London. "I was looking at images of the region near the Saturnian moons Methone and Pallene and something caught my eye."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070719194206.htm

Related (2004);
Moons of the Solar System
http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Moons/MoonsSolSys.html

60 moons and all those rings,Saturn's got it going on!
 

slowhand

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It's amazing how one planet can have so many moons just looking up and seeing 62 moons that would be a trip
 

member006

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You can see some of them with binoculars. Same with Jupiter.

Just with binoculars? Wow who'd a thunk it. My brother in law kept mine when he went to a Nascar race a few years ago. Time for a call maybe?

:mad: People that borrow and don't ever return. :mad:

LL
 
Could you imagine the tidal effects all those moons would create if Saturn had oceans? It would be insane!
 
I like the fact that a lot of Saturn's moons orbit other moons that are in turn orbiting Saturn.

Could you imagine the tidal effects all those moons would create if Saturn had oceans? It would be insane!

Because Saturn is so massive compared to it's moons and covers so much area compared to them it probably wouldn't be that noticeable. Many of the moons are pretty far out from it because of it's gravitational well extends so far also. Plus its moons are scattered so some of them would cancel each other out. The Earth is different because it's moon is so abnormally large for a planet it's size.

You can see some of them with binoculars. Same with Jupiter.

What I find amazing is that from Mars looking at Earth you should be able to see the Earth's moon with the naked eye and see it revolve around the Earth. I think from there somebody might be able to pick out some of Jupiter's moons with the naked eye also.

If you going to see them with binoculars I think most people would need a good tripod to put them on. Even practicing holding my hands steady with shooting and other stuff it's hard for even me to hold binoculars that still for longer than a few moments.
 
I don't understand this really....I mean, have you heard of the size of this thing? I really don't understand how we can not classify Pluto as a full-fledged planet due to it's size, and conversely, we can consider something this small a moon. :dunno:
 
I like the fact that a lot of Saturn's moons orbit other moons that are in turn orbiting Saturn.



Because Saturn is so massive compared to it's moons and covers so much area compared to them it probably wouldn't be that noticeable. Many of the moons are pretty far out from it because of it's gravitational well extends so far also. Plus its moons are scattered so some of them would cancel each other out. The Earth is different because it's moon is so abnormally large for a planet it's size.



What I find amazing is that from Mars looking at Earth you should be able to see the Earth's moon with the naked eye and see it revolve around the Earth. I think from there somebody might be able to pick out some of Jupiter's moons with the naked eye also.

If you going to see them with binoculars I think most people would need a good tripod to put them on. Even practicing holding my hands steady with shooting and other stuff it's hard for even me to hold binoculars that still for longer than a few moments.


the good thing about binoculars, is that they are only a small amount of power so your natural shaking only slightly moves a small picture. Same as if you are looking across a field. But the extra magnification is a help.

You can see Jupiter with it's moons off toward the Southwest any night, (this time of year). It is the brighest object by far there and you really can't miss it. It's small with binoculars but you'll know it when you see it. It is larger than any surrounding stars.

Venus will be more toward the West, which will be by far the brightest thing in that direction. By nature, you will only see a half sliver of Venus. Saturn is dimmer, but lines up well to the right of Venus, a cream color, yellowish.
 
the good thing about binoculars, is that they are only a small amount of power so your natural shaking only slightly moves a small picture. Same as if you are looking across a field. But the extra magnification is a help.

The planet itself isn't a problem, but any moons surrounding it will still be small enough it will be hard for your eye to focus on if it's not still enough. When you look at things directly your eye has the natural capability to stabilize what you see, but when you look through optics it's like looking at a television set where the camera bounces. Then again maybe it wouldn't matter if you had a quality pair of binoculars.
 
The planet itself isn't a problem, but any moons surrounding it will still be small enough it will be hard for your eye to focus on if it's not still enough. When you look at things directly your eye has the natural capability to stabilize what you see, but when you look through optics it's like looking at a television set where the camera bounces. Then again maybe it wouldn't matter if you had a quality pair of binoculars.


Mine are 9x. I can see them as specks, very bright, and they all jiggle at the same rate.
 
Heh, I thought guys with this stuff always spied on nudest beaches with space telescopes and spy satellites. Unless they found a nude beach on a Saturn moon that is.
 

L3ggy

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OMG! 60 moons!
 
The planet itself isn't a problem, but any moons surrounding it will still be small enough it will be hard for your eye to focus on if it's not still enough. When you look at things directly your eye has the natural capability to stabilize what you see, but when you look through optics it's like looking at a television set where the camera bounces. Then again maybe it wouldn't matter if you had a quality pair of binoculars.


The focal distance for the planet and the moons is the same. If you are focused on one, you will see them all, albeit tiny, but bright.
 
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