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thenewenlightenmentage: Two New Moons Found Orbiting Jupiter Tiny satellites add to planet’s “backward” swarm, astronomers say. Jason Major for National Geographic News Published February 2, 2012 Two new moons have been found orbiting Jupiter, bringing the Jovian family count up to 66 natural satellites, astronomers revealed this week. Currently known as S/2011 J1 and S/2011 J2, the new moons were first identified in images acquired with the Magellan-Baade Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile on September 27, 2011. The objects are among the smallest moons yet discovered in the solar system, each measuring only about a kilometer (0.62 mile) wide. Read More

thenewenlightenmentage:

Two New Moons Found Orbiting Jupiter

Tiny satellites add to planet’s “backward” swarm, astronomers say.

Jason Major

for National Geographic News

Published February 2, 2012

Two new moons have been found orbiting Jupiter, bringing the Jovian family count up to 66 natural satellites, astronomers revealed this week.

Currently known as S/2011 J1 and S/2011 J2, the new moons were first identified in images acquired with the Magellan-Baade Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile on September 27, 2011.

The objects are among the smallest moons yet discovered in the solar system, each measuring only about a kilometer (0.62 mile) wide.

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