TWO more moons have been discovered orbiting Uranus, bringing the total to
17.
Astronomers from the US and Canada first saw the new moons on 6 September.
Only 80 and 160 kilometres across, they have elongated, tilted orbits, about 6
and 8 million kilometres from Uranus鈥攎uch farther than all the other
moons.
鈥淭hey were probably captured early in the history of the planet,鈥� says team
member Philip Nicholson of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
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