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Twelve new moons of Jupiter discovered, with risks of collision

Washington, July 18 (UNI) Astronomers have found a dozen of new moons orbiting Jupiter, 11 normal outer moons and one "oddball," adding the planet's total number of known moons to 79, the largest of any planet in the Solar System.
A team led by Carnegie’s Scott S. Sheppard first spotted the moons in the spring of 2017 while they were looking for very distant Solar System objects as part of the hunt for a possible massive planet far beyond Pluto, according to a news release by Carnegie Institution for Science.
“Jupiter just happened to be in the sky near the search fields where we were looking for extremely distant Solar System objects, so we were serendipitously able to look for new moons around Jupiter while at the same time looking for planets at the fringes of our Solar System,” said Sheppard.
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7 killed in fire in Indonesia's Jakarta

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