This month had a lot of extra catch-up between the usual exoplanet updates, more behind-the-scenes updates (as teased during our anniversary post in case you only read Steam notes), and the very exciting discovery of over a hundred more moons around our very own Saturn! Light reading and a list of the new moons can be found in this short NASA article.
The new moons are not easily findable with default settings. You will need to either use the Solar System Browser with Gas giant minor moons enabled (click the Gear in the left of the window), or use Find Object. Naming conventions are the same as the linked article, except with a space between the last letter/number (so S/2000 S3 becomes S/2000 S 3).
Changelog:
- Updated small moons catalog with 128 new Saturn moons
- Updated binary asteroids catalog
- Updated the exoplanet catalogs with 17 new host stars and 28 new planets (listed below)
- Added basic descriptions to the Info tab of the Wiki for 409 asteroids
- Added LMC globular cluster NGC 1755
- Improved distances and sizes of some open clusters
- Disabled some phantom clusters
- Updated size and orientation of M 101 and added proper name (Pinwheel)
- Updated size of M 81
- Updated orientation of IC 1296
- Improved size and orientation of NGC 1211
- Tweaked distance to IC 2163
Catalog Additions:
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