Re: There is a Santa Claus!

In message <dl5saq$7dj$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Keith F. Lynch <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Doug Wickstrom <nimshubur@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
No, as I said, the _chart_ was prescient.  It was also wrong about
the numbers of moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus.


What's the correct number?  Are you sure?  How do you know more moons
around those planets won't be discovered next year?  How large does
something have to be to be a moon?

As those planets are now known to have more moons than the chart stated therefore the chart was definitely incorrect whatever the actual number. Jupiter has more than twelve moons Saturn more than nine. The current known totals for the outer planets are:

Jupiter                 Sixty-three
Saturn                  Forty-six
Uranus                  Twenty-seven
Neptune                 Thirteen

For TNOs (in size order)

2003 UB313 "Xena"       One
Pluto                   Three
2005 FY9 "Easterbunny"  Zero
2003 EL61 "Santa"       One
Sedna                   Zero
Orcus                   Zero
Quaoar                  Zero
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