Aalice.465 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!alice!sjb Tue Feb 2 21:47:05 1982 New Saturnian Moons Scientists, analyzing data from Voyager II, say that information has increased the number of known moons of Saturn to 21 to 23. Two new satellites were confirmed, with two others listed as ``possibles,'' since they had only one sighting each and are awaiting confirmation as satellites. The moons range from 6 to 12 miles in diameter and have orbits as far as 292,000 miles from the ringed planet. Before Voyager I passed Saturn in 1979, only 10 moons were known to exist. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.