Jupiter’s Moon Count Reaches 79, Including Tiny ‘Oddball’

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NEW YORK (AP) – It’s getting more crowded around Jupiter. A team of astronomers is reporting the discovery of a dozen new moons circling the giant gas planet.
That brings the number of moons at Jupiter to 79, the most of any planet. Saturn is next with 61.
Jupiter and its moons (Photo Credit: Thinkstock)
The astronomers were looking for objects on the fringes of the solar system when they spotted the Jupiter moons. They found a dozen small moons. Th