Pluto Reclassified as "Dwarf Planet"

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IAU recognises 128 new moons of Saturn, bringing total number of known moons to 274

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The International Astronomical Union has recognised 128 new official moons of Saturn , bringing that planet’s total to 274 known moons.

As things now stand, Saturn has more moons than all the rest of the planets in our solar system combined (even adding in the single moon of Pluto—if one counts Pluto as a full planet, as I still do)..

NASA defines moons as “naturally forming bodies that orbit planets” but it would exclude human-made astro-junk.

Such a definition would still be much broader than the one that most of us hold in our childhood imaginations: something big enough for we humans to land on (as per the famous 1964 Frank Sinatra standard).

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