A multitude of new moons have made their presence known around Jupiter and Saturn, bringing their population of moons to 101 and 285, respectively.
The new discoveries also bring the total number of known moons orbiting planets and dwarf planets in the solar system to 442 — and that's not including the many moonlets accompanying various asteroids or small Kuiper Belt objects.
The newly found moons — four for Jupiter and 11 for Saturn — were announced by the Minor Planet Center, which is the clearing house for astronomical discoveries of asteroids, comets, centaurs and, indeed, moons.
