Saturn's dirty dozen.
Using new technology on aging telescopes, astronomers have found 12 new moons orbiting Saturn. Electronic-scanning technology detects ultraviolet light--short, high-frequency light waves invisible to the naked eye--emitted by space objects. The moons weren't spotted before, because they range from only 1 to 3.5 meters in diameter! How did they form? Large asteroids probably crashed and left debris that was sucked in by Saturn's gravity (attractive force), speculates astronomer Brett Gladman at France's Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur 1 Father of Hananiah (2.)
2 Father of Jaazaniah (4.).
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