how many moon's does saturn have?

Question

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Answer 1

56 confirmed ones, And they are in order outwards from the planet's surface, with their orbital periods:

1 Pan 0.57505 days
2 Daphnis 0.59408 days
3 Atlas 0.60169 days
4 Prometheus 0.61299 days
5 Pandora 0.62850 days
6 Epimetheus 0.69433 days
7 Janus 0.69466 days
8 Mimas 0.942422 days
9 Methone 1.00957 days
10 Pallene 1.15375 days
11 Enceladus 1.370218 days
12 Tethys 1.887802 days
13 Telesto leading Tethys trojan (in same orbit)
14 Calypso trailing Tethys trojan (in same orbit)
15 Dione 2.736915 days
16 Helene leading Dione trojan (in same orbit)
17 Polydeuces trailing Dione trojan (in same orbit)
18 Rhea 4.518212 days
19 Titan 15.94542 days
20 Hyperion 21.27661 days
21 Iapetus 79.3215 days
22 Kiviuq 448.16 days
23 Ijiraq 451.77 days
24 Phoebe 545.09 days
25 Paaliaq 692.98 days
26 Skathi 732.52 days
27 Albiorix 774.58 days
28 S/2004 S 11 838.77 days
29 Erriapo 844.89 days
30 S/2006 S 8 862.37 days
31 Siarnaq 884.88 days
32 S/2004 S 13 905.85 days
33 S/2006 S 4 906.56 days
34 S/2004 S 19 914.29 days
35 S/2006 S 6 943.78 days
36 Tarvos 944.23 days
37 Mundilfari 956.70 days
38 S/2006 S 1 972.41 days
39 S/2004 S 17 985.45 days
40 S/2004 S 15 985.83 days
41 Narvi 1008.45 days
42 Suttungr 1022.82 days
43 S/2004 S 14 1033.05 days
44 S/2004 S 12 1048.54 days
45 S/2004 S 9 1054.78 days
46 Thrymr 1078.09 days
47 S/2004 S 10 1094.46 days
48 S/2004 S 18 1101.45 days
49 S/2004 S 7 1101.99 days
50 S/2006 S 3 1142.37 days
51 S/2004 S 16 1212.53 days
52 S/2006 S 7 1242.36 days
53 S/2006 S 2 1245.06 days
54 Ymir 1254.15 days
55 S/2006 S 5 1300.95 days
56 S/2004 S 8 1432.16 days

Answer 2

2

Answer 3

3

Answer 4

The discern is sixty one.yet maximum the moons found out in previous couple of years are purely 5 or 8 kilometers in length and relatively can't be observed as Moons. we could desire to make a clean definition for moons as IAU executed for planets to out Pluto.Small rocks captured or going around can't be observed as Moons.

Answer 5

It used to be 17, but new ones are being discovered on a semi-regular basis. The largest is Titan, which has its own hydrocarbon atmosphere.

Answer 6

35

Answer 7

we just lost a planet and the jury is still out on what makes a moon so who knows ( todays answer is 56 )

SINCE YOU GOT MULTIPLE ANSWERS
try www.solarsystem.nasa.gov or just nasa.gov and use the links - teachers like proof !

IF YOU USE A LINK - CHECK THE AGE ! ( the 56 count above is so new that they don't have names just numbers )

Answer 8

The number is not exact.There r about 56 moons.For more details go to

Answer 9

56 and 3 un-confrimed ones

Answer 10

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To answer if you have no time, there are 15 moons of which titan is the most interesting