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Nature 412, 132-133 (12 July 2001) | doi:10.1038/35084310

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Planetary science: Saturn saturated with satellites

Douglas P. Hamilton

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Advances in detector technology have led to a rash of newly discovered moons around the giant planets. Saturn currently has the most known satellites — but for how long?

Parents of small children are expected to know the answers to questions like "Which planets in the Solar System have the most moons?" But a surge of discoveries of distant planetary companions in the past five years has left beleaguered parents everywhere hard pressed to answer this query correctly.