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The moons of Saturn are numerous and diverse, ranging from tiny moonlets only tens of meters across to the enormous Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury. There are 146 moons with confirmed orbits , the most of any planet in the Solar System.
The name of Eris's moon Dysnomia was suggested by its discoverer Michael E. Brown, who also suggested the name of the dwarf planet. The name has two meanings: in mythology Dysnomia (lawlessness) is the daughter of Eris (chaos). However, the name is also an intentional reference to the actor Lucy Lawless who plays the character Xena. The ...
For instance, for a large portion of names ending in -s, the oblique stem and therefore the English adjective changes the -s to a -d, -t, or -r, as in Mars–Martian, Pallas–Palladian and Ceres–Cererian; [note 1] occasionally an -n has been lost historically from the nominative form, and reappears in the oblique and therefore in the English ...
The new discovery increases the moons orbiting the "jewel of our solar system" to 82, surpassing Jupiter
Unlike most planetary moons, which are named from antiquity, all the moons of Uranus are named after characters from the works of Shakespeare and Alexander Pope's work The Rape of the Lock. Neptune has 16 known moons; the largest, Triton, accounts for more than 99.5 percent of all the mass orbiting the planet. Triton is large enough to have ...
Pages in category "Moons of Saturn" The following 118 pages are in this category, out of 118 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Neptune was named for the Roman god of the sea, so the planet’s moons are named after lesser sea gods and nymphs. ... Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — share similar configurations.
Titan, the largest moon of the planet Saturn, is a masculine Greek moniker that means “powerful big man”—with a kind heart, of course. Girl Names That Mean Moon Cava Images/Getty Images