Astronomers have discovered yet another satellite of Saturn, bringing to 60 the number of moons around the ringed planet. The Cassini spacecraft spied the roughly 2-kilometer-wide body in images taken May 30.
Residing 197,700 km from Saturn, the moon orbits between Methone and Pallene, two 4-km-wide moons that were discovered by the craft soon after its arrival in July 2004.
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