I bet they've counted one of them twice.
By Jove! Astroboffins spot 12 new spanking moons around Jupiter
Jupiter already had the most moons in the Solar System, but now scientists have discovered twelve new ones bringing the total up to 79. They were first spotted last year by a team of astronomers originally on the hunt for the elusive Planet Nine, a hypothetical body speculated to exist beyond Neptune. Unfortunately, they …
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Wednesday 18th July 2018 08:21 GMT Rameses Niblick the Third Kerplunk Kerplunk Whoops Where's My Thribble?
Re: SMEG!
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Wednesday 18th July 2018 12:12 GMT Sgt_Oddball
Re: SMEG!
I thought it was a full Rilmmer? (Extend right arm in front to shoulder height, rotate hand around wrist 5 times then move hand to forehead like an empty palm navy salute before finally lowering arm to side of body....in the most gimpish way you can imagine).
Now you'll have to excuse me, someone's used battleship grey instead of sea grey again...
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Wednesday 18th July 2018 13:09 GMT David Nash
Re: What is a moon ?
Pluto wasn't demoted, strictly speaking, because it was too small. It was because other bodies had been found of similar size, and they didn't want to open the floodgates.
Actually the only criterion for planethood that Pluto doesn't fulfil, is that it has not "cleared it's neighbouring region".
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Wednesday 18th July 2018 17:13 GMT Robert Helpmann??
Re: What is a moon ?
The IAU definition of planet works fine for purposes of of some scientific fields but not for others and that is its weakness. It is of an ad hoc nature and lacks general utility. Much better would be to pare down the definition to something along the lines of "a planet is a non-stellar object orbiting a stellar object" and then work on classification of the different types of planets much in the way that stellar objects have been.
Even more telling, there is no IAU definition of moon.