Scientists counted 79 months on Jupiter (VIDEO)

Astronomers still find the moons of Jupiter, 400 years since the first meeting of Galileo planets

With the last discovery of 12 small months, the total number of moons of Jupiter is now 79, which is the highest of any other planet in our solar system.

A certificate of ten months ago was published Scientists were looking for objects on the edge of the solar system last year when they were using telescopes in the vicinity of Jupiter, says Skot Šepard of the Carnegie Institute of Science in Washington [19659004] They saw a new set of objects moving around the gigantic planetary planets but they did not know if they were the months or asteroids passing through Jupiter.

"There was not of Eureka moment. "It was a year to discover what these items were," said Shape, "it was every month of Jupiter."

Months were not known since the small, about one or two kilometers, said astronomer Garet Vilijams the International Union of Astronomers

He thinks Jupiter may have even some Months so small that it's enough to discover them.

"We did not look at them enough," said Vilijams, who agreed to confirm the month's orbit. 19659004] The team of scientists called one of the "strange" months of unusual orbits

The Shepherd Girl named Valetude man, named of after the godfather of the Roman god Jupiter.

Valetudo is far from the moon around Jupiter

"This month is heading from the highway in the opposite direction," Šepard said.

Scientists believe that months like Valetudo and his brothers soon appeared the formation of Jupiter. The planet probably acted like a vacuum, sucking all around it.