how many moons has saturn got?

Question

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Answer 1

56 i cant believe people are saying in the teens


Saturn is currently known to have fifty-six moons, many of which were discovered very recently, and three additional un-confirmed, hypothetical moons. However, a precise number of moons can never be given, as there is no objective dividing line between the anonymous orbiting fragments that form Saturn's ring system and the larger objects that have already been named as moons.

Answer 2

56 at the latest census. It is clear that some people are using out-of-date reference sources. The numbers have shot up in recent years as my notes at the end make clear ...

Jupiter has 63 moons and has the most known moons in the solar system. Saturn has 56 (followed by Uranus with 27, Neptune with 13 Mars with 2 and Earth with just the one).

In order outwards from the planet with their respective orbital periods, they are:

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

Saturn is currently known to have 56 moons, many of which were discovered very recently, and 3 additional un-confirmed, hypothetical moons.

Before the advent of telescopic photography, eight moons of Saturn were discovered by direct observation using an optical telescope:

Titan, discovered in 1655 by Christiaan Huygens;

Tethys, Dione, Rhea and Iapetus (the "Sidera Lodoicea") discovered 1671-1684 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini;

Mimas and Enceladus, discovered 1789 by William Herschel;

Hyperion, discovered 1848 by W.C. Bond, G.P. Bond and Lassell.

The use of long-exposure photographic plates made it possible to discover additional moons:

Phoebe was the first satellite discovered by telescopic photograph in 1899 by W.H. Pickering.

In 1966, the satellites Janus and Epimetheus were observed, but not confirmed, and it was not realized that there were two distinct moons sharing an orbit.

The study of the outer planets has since been revolutionized, first by the use of unmanned space probes, and then by advances in telescopy:

From 1980, when the first of the the Voyager space probes arrived at Saturn, to 1990, analysis of Voyager images revealed 8 more moons in the inner Saturnian system. The last discovered was Pan.

A survey starting in late 2000 found 13 new moons orbiting Saturn at a great distance in orbits that suggest they are fragments of larger bodies captured by Saturn's gravitational pull (Nature vol. 412, pp. 163–166).

The Cassini mission, which arrived at Saturn in the summer of 2004, discovered three small moons in the inner Saturnian system as well as three suspected but unconfirmed moons in the F Ring. This increased the total to 37 moons, confirmed and unconfirmed.

On November 16, 2004, Cassini scientists announced that the structure of Saturn's rings indicates the presence of several more moons orbiting within the rings, but only one, Daphnis, has been visually confirmed so far (its confirmation was announced on May 6, 2005).

On May 3, 2005, astronomers using the Mauna Kea Observatory announced the discovery of 12 more small outer moons.

On June 30, 2006, astronomers using the Subaru 8.2 m telescope announced the discovery of 9 more small outer moons

Answer 3

Saturn has a large number of moons. The precise figure is uncertain, as the orbiting chunks of ice in Saturn's rings are all technically moons, and it is difficult to draw a distinction between a large ring particle and a tiny moon. As of 2006, a total of 56 individual moons have been identified, along with 3 unconfirmed moons that could be small dusk clumps in the rings. Many of the moons are very small: out of 56, 30 are less than 10 km in diameter, and another 13 less than 50 km. Only seven of them are massive enough to have collapsed into spheroids under their own gravitation. These are compared to Earth's moon in the table below. Saturn's most noteworthy moon is Titan, the only moon in the solar system to have a dense atmosphere.

Answer 4

Saturn has a lot of moons (33 discovered as of August, 2004). There are 18 named moons and about a dozen others that have not been named yet. Titan is the biggest moon; this moon has a thick nitrogen atmosphere.

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

Saturn has any were from 16 to 27 moons

Answer 7

21

Answer 8

16. positive.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

16
and counting