Thursday, October 30, 2008
Some Planets Have More "Satellites" Than You Think
I was researching over the internet earlier just browsing through planets and their moons, when I came across Saturn and Jupiters moons. Usually, I thought, when I thought about how many moons a planet had it was 1, maybe 2 moons. Until I read how many Saturn and Jupiter have. Saturn has 60 moons! And Jupiter has 63! I thought that this was amazing, we are so used to seeing our planet, earth, with just one moon. Then to think that those planets out there have 60 and more, it blew my mind. Obviously, these moons are spread out over a vast distance around the planet, but none the less they are still their moons. The distances can range from 100 thousand km from the planet, all the way to 28 million km from the planet.
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(Currie - Some planets Have More Satellites Than You Think). These facts have by far blown me away! Never would I have guessed that they could have so many or be that distance away from the planet itself, this course continues to teach me something new everyday!
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