OH yeah love ending my workday with a surprise National Geographic interview about the Saturn moons that I helped discover by accidentally pointing the CFHT telescope at Saturn. Definitely my most scientifically productive whoopsie ever.
128!!!! New!!! MOONS!!
Happy Moon Day!
minorplanetcenter.netMPEC 2025-E153 : SIXTY-ONE NEW SATURNIAN SATELLITESWe are the official body that deals with
astrometric observations and orbits of minor planets (asteroids) and comets.
To be very clear, I am really truly only involved in this discovery by accidentally pointing the telescope at Saturn when I was trying to look for TNOs. Edward Ashton, Brett Gladman, Mike Alexandersen, and Jean-Marc Petit did all the work!
Someone already updated Wikipedia! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn
I love wikipedians.
en.wikipedia.orgMoons of Saturn - Wikipedia
@sundogplanets Ringed by moons?!