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Cassini Finds Two New Moons Around Saturn

With optics sharper than any that have previously peered at Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft has uncovered two moons, which may be the smallest bodies so far seen around the ringed planet.

The moons are approximately 3 kilometers (2 miles) and 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) across - smaller than Boulder, Colo. The moons, located 194,000 kilometers (120,000 miles) and 211,000 kilometers (131,000 miles) from the planet's center, are between the orbits of Mimas and Enceladus. They are provisionally named S/2004 S1 and S/2004 S2. One of them, S/2004 S1, may be an object that had been spied in a single image taken by NASA's Voyager spacecraft 23 years ago, S/1981 S14, but which was previously unconfirmed.

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