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Tuesday, July 17, 2018 – 22:03
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US researchers have discovered 12 new moons in orbit around the world, increasing the number of moons to 79, according to researchers at the Carnegie Endowment for Science, under the supervision of Scott Sheppard
The researchers explain that the buyer surpasses all the planets of our solar system. Scientists were looking through a telescope in Chile for a large planet that would likely be at the edge of the solar system when they found moons for the first time in the spring of 2017.
The researchers said 11 newly discovered satellites were relatively similar to the satellites Known up to them while the eccentric twelfth moon where it does not do It is a kilometer in diameter, which suggests to researchers that it is the smallest moon so far.
This moon completes its orbit around Jupiter every year and a half. "This orbit is completely unstable and allows collisions with other celestial bodies," said Sheppard
