From looking at the Wikipedia article on Saturn's moons [1], and especially some of the crazy orbital diagrams like this one [2], its difficult to comprehend how they even sort through the existing 146 moons to make sure they're not just double counting. Maybe they've got better data over in those groups, yet from what's available on WP, looks like quite a few were confirmed with the equivalent of 3-5 frames of stop motion imagery. Especially in the Norse group that looks very crowded. [3] "Sure that's not Bergelmir or Hati?" Most don't seem to have any announcements or articles listed after the initial discovery unless they're the really large ones like Titan, Rhea, or Enceladus.
From looking at the Wikipedia article on Saturn's moons [1], and especially some of the crazy orbital diagrams like this one [2], its difficult to comprehend how they even sort through the existing 146 moons to make sure they're not just double counting. Maybe they've got better data over in those groups, yet from what's available on WP, looks like quite a few were confirmed with the equivalent of 3-5 frames of stop motion imagery. Especially in the Norse group that looks very crowded. [3] "Sure that's not Bergelmir or Hati?" Most don't seem to have any announcements or articles listed after the initial discovery unless they're the really large ones like Titan, Rhea, or Enceladus.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn
[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Saturn_i...
[3] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Saturnmo...
*newly discovered, as they are about 100 million years old. Headline implies to me that they were recently created.
Like Linnaeus invented all the animals, these scientists created the new moons of Saturn.
That’s still surprisingly young!
https://archive.ph/oSMb7