Merrillville Community Planetarium
Bringing the Universe to the Merrillville Schools and Northwest Indiana

Even More Moons at Saturn

The same team of scientists who may have discovered 6 new moons at Saturn in October, believe they may have found 4 to 6 more moons in December.

Brett Gladman and his team of researchers at the National Center of Scientific Research in Nice, France announced their newest discoveries in December. The new moons appear to be small and travel in irregular orbits. If confirmed as planets, Saturn’s total could be as many as 30 moons, the most of any one planet in the solar system.