A further 23 satellites have been discovered in orbit around Jupiter. With diameters of between two and eight kilometres, the moons are the smallest yet spotted around any planet.
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Hamilton, D. Jupiter's moonopoly. Nature 423, 235–236 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/423235a
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