Saturn Adds 62 Moons Bringing Total Satellites to 145

An international team of astronomers has discovered 62 additional moons in orbit around Saturn, bringing the ringed planet's grand total to 145 - more than any other planet in our solar system. A team led by Dr. Edward Ashton, a postdoctoral fellow at Taiwan's Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, used a method known as "shift and stack" to find new moons around Saturn. Any orbiting body identified as a potential moon is monitored for several years until it can me confirmed as moons. All of the newly discovered moons are considered irregular moons which have a large, elliptical, and inclined orbits.