Has ten more moons, for a new total of seventy nine. I’m old enough to remember when there were only four.
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Has ten more moons, for a new total of seventy nine. I’m old enough to remember when there were only four.
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I’m old enough to remember when it was 12, and only 12.
I’m old enough to remember when the Maya were all peaceful pot-smoking mathematicians that spent all their time staring at the heavens…
Then someone actually started to decode their writings.
I’m old enough to remember when there were only four.
I’m impressed. Jupiter’s 5th moon was discovered in 1892.
I didn’t say my memory was accurate.
At your age how could it be? 🙂
Exactly!
I don’t even remember how many moons the outer planets had when the reference books I had as a kid were published. Twelve sounds right-ish, but I’m just not sure. It would mean Saturn must have had nine.
All our reference books were outdated by the time I was born, though. Such was life before the internet.
When I was a kid Jupiter had 12 and Saturn had 9. I remember when Saturn’s 10th moon was discovered, and it seemed like a big deal at the time.
Moons? Aren’t they called worlds now?
I was obsessive about this stuff as a kid (Sputnik went up when I was 7). Mercury-0, Venus-0, Earth-1, Mars-2, Ceres-Vesta-Juno-Pallas ha-ha!, Jupiter-12, Saturn-9, Uranus-5, Neptune-2, Pluto-0. I was always peeved the reference books didn’t give the names of Jupiter VI-XII, since I had the moon names memorized too. And, of course, there was “Fire Maidens of Outer Space,” set on Jupiter XIII, which they called Leda (I think). Now imagine little kid wandering around humming “Stranger in Paradise…”
“Dwarf moons”