[HN Gopher] Saturn reclaims 'moon king' title from Jupiter with ...
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       Saturn reclaims 'moon king' title from Jupiter with 62 newfound
       satellites
        
       Author : gmays
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2023-05-15 15:22 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | testplzignore wrote:
       | > That's about two-thirds the length of Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
       | 
       | Is this the unit of measurement space.com readers are most
       | familiar with?
        
         | EamonnMR wrote:
         | Please give all lengths in Rhode Islands.
        
         | birdyrooster wrote:
         | Is this a rhetorical question?
        
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       | vlovich123 wrote:
       | What's the minimum size of a moon? Isn't every particle within
       | Saturn's rings technically a "moon"?
        
       | samhuk wrote:
       | > Saturn's system currently hosts three of these groupings -- the
       | Inuit group, the Gallic group and the densely populated Norse
       | group, all of which take their names from different mythologies.
       | 
       | > All of the newfound moons of Saturn fall into one of these
       | three currently existing groupings. Three of the new moons belong
       | to the Inuit group, but the majority fit in the Norse group.
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       | TIL Saturn's moons are named after various human groups.
        
         | pavlov wrote:
         | More precisely the gods and other mythological figures from
         | these peoples.
        
           | samhuk wrote:
           | Ah, certainly. I think "Titan" is a somewhat odd name for a
           | human.
        
       | ghaff wrote:
       | I think when I was a kid I could probably have named the
       | canonical list of moons known at the time. I'm pretty sure that
       | would be a very impressive feat today.
        
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