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Wounded Bear

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3. If they had known this back in the day, would they have even launched Voyager?

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Fri May 12, 2023, 07:55 AM

May 2023

Really, though, back then they thought the volume of space around the giant planets was much less crowded. This knowledge might have complicated their calculations. Kind of lucky neither of the Voyager craft "found" any of these satellites.

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Saturn Re-takes the Moon Crown [View all] BootinUp May 2023 OP

When I was a kid, if memory serves, Saturn was thought to have 9 moons. rsdsharp May 2023 #1

They'll probably discover more around Neptune and Uranus as time goes on Warpy May 2023 #2

If they had known this back in the day, would they have even launched Voyager? Wounded Bear May 2023 #3

Though the same team have 45 new moons of Jupiter lined up too muriel_volestrangler May 2023 #4