New moon for Uranus


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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2299343.stm

Astronomers have discovered a small moon circling the distant planet Uranus.

They say it is among the faintest objects ever detected in our Solar System.

It was first seen in August 2001, but quickly lost amid the glare from Uranus. It was only rediscovered and confirmed a few weeks ago, in August and September 2002.

"The extraordinary small moons we detected around Saturn convinced us that there should be similarly sized small moons around Uranus," Dr J Kavelaars of the National Research Council of Canada told BBC News Online. "Now we have found them."

Until 1997, Uranus was the only gas-giant planet in our Solar System without any known small, irregular moons. Now, including the latest one, six are known to orbit the planet.

Kavelaars' team included Matthew Holman, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Jean-Marc Petit, of the Observatoire de Besancon in France, Brett Gladman of the University of British Columbia and Dan Milisavljevic of McMaster University in Canada.

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