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OH yeah love ending my workday with a surprise National Geographic interview about the Saturn moons that I helped discover by accidentally pointing the CFHT telescope at Saturn. Definitely my most scientifically productive whoopsie ever.

128!!!! New!!! MOONS!!

Happy Moon Day!

minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25

minorplanetcenter.netMPEC 2025-E153 : SIXTY-ONE NEW SATURNIAN SATELLITESWe are the official body that deals with astrometric observations and orbits of minor planets (asteroids) and comets.
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"Accidentally" : -) If I was a telescope-managing astronomer, the telescope would "accidentally" be pointing at Saturn regularly. I'm kinda partial to Saturn and it's rings.