• Question: why does saturn have so many moons?

    Asked by jack2011bowler to Katherine on 21 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Katherine Jones

      Katherine Jones answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      I didn’t know the answer to this, and apparently it is not very simple! But I did find on the NASA website that the rings are made from asteroids, and also that Saturn and Jupiter are the biggest planets so they have very high gravity. Apparently these two things together, mean that there are lots of moons.

      http://quest.nasa.gov/saturn/qa/new/Saturn_Moons_and_Rings.txt

      I hope that is a bit helpful, at least! I’m afraid that I don’t know a lot about planets. 😉

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