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I would have struggled to match you, but easily doable as I did know Jupiter had 12 moons and Saturn 9 (this was in the 1970s, but the books I was reading were
by billforsternz 3y ago
I would have struggled to match you, but easily doable as I did know Jupiter had 12 moons and Saturn 9 (this was in the 1970s, but the books I was reading were probably old). Having said that, Jupiter had 4 and Saturn 1 'real' mini-planet sized moons then as now. I definitely knew the names of all of those :-)
- ghaff 3y agoI'm not sure what I said was literally true. The Galilean moons and Saturn's Triton certainly. But a bunch of others in the 60s I could probably have named (I think Jupiter was up to about a dozen by then and Saturn maybe nine) given I was pretty into space/astronomy. Forget about Uranus and Neptune at that point and pretty sure Charon hadn't been discovered since Pluto was a hazy spot. Knew Mars obviously.