Jupiter update: 12 new moons discovered around the Giant Planet, including one oddball !!

by | Jul 17, 2018 | News

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An illustration showing how the orbits of the newly discovered moons (bold) fit into the known orbital groupings of the Jovian moons (not bold). The "oddball" with the proposed name Valetudo orbits in the prograde, but crosses the orbits of the planet's o
Washington, DC—Twelve new moons orbiting Jupiter have been found—11 “normal” outer moons, and one that they’re calling an “oddball.”  This brings Jupiter’s total number of known moons to a whopping 79—the most of any planet in our Solar System.

Complete story here:
https://carnegiescience.edu/news/dozen-new-moons-jupiter-discovered-including-one-“oddball”