SKIRMISHER

Yet another moon has been discovered near Saturn (that’s the 60th), adding to an already growing caboodle of creepy, rocky satellites orbiting the Ringed Planet.

Initial calculations suggest the moon is about 2km-wide (1.2 miles) and its orbit sits between those of two other Saturnian moons, Methone and Pallene. 

Professor Carl Murray, a Cassini Imaging Team scientist from Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL), said: “After initially detecting this extremely faint object, we carried out an exhaustive search of all Cassini images to date and were able to find further detections.

It is thought, like many of Saturn’s other moons, to be mostly made up of ice and rock.

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