Every month at the end of the month, Alvin writes a moon list in his newsletter, a way of looking back. I don't know the source—Alvin, let me know, and I'll cite it next week—but I tried to figure it out by googling and instead found a list of moons. There are so many in the solar system (and yes scientists are trying to find them around planets around other stars, too), and I can't even ever remember which are Jupiter's and which are Saturn's. (Any mnemonic would require more familiarity with ancient mythology than I have.) But I do love that Mars' moons are always called potato-shaped, because they are!
potato moon
potato moon
potato moon
Every month at the end of the month, Alvin writes a moon list in his newsletter, a way of looking back. I don't know the source—Alvin, let me know, and I'll cite it next week—but I tried to figure it out by googling and instead found a list of moons. There are so many in the solar system (and yes scientists are trying to find them around planets around other stars, too), and I can't even ever remember which are Jupiter's and which are Saturn's. (Any mnemonic would require more familiarity with ancient mythology than I have.) But I do love that Mars' moons are always called potato-shaped, because they are!