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Studying the orbits of these moons can reveal their origins, as well as information about the conditions surrounding Saturn at the time of its formation.

– Scott Sheppard

Found on CNN 5 years ago

I was so thrilled with the amount of public engagement over the Jupiter moon-naming contest that we've decided to do another one to name these newly discovered Saturnian moons, this time, the moons must be named after giants from Norse, Gallic or Inuit mythology.

– Scott Sheppard

Found on CNN 5 years ago

In the Solar System's youth, the Sun was surrounded by a rotating disk of gas and dust from which the planets were born. It is believed that a similar gas-and-dust disk surrounded Saturn during its formation, the fact that these newly discovered moons were able to continue orbiting Saturn after their parent moons broke apart indicates that these collisions occurred after the planet formation process was mostly complete and the disks were no longer a factor.

– Scott Sheppard

Found on CNN 5 years ago

Using some of the largest telescopes in the world, we are now completing the inventory of small moons around the giant planets, they play a crucial role in helping us determine how our Solar System's planets formed and evolved.

– Scott Sheppard

Found on CNN 5 years ago

Its very faint, its on the edge of our ability to detect it.

– Scott Sheppard

Found on FOX News 5 years ago

This is hot off the presses, it's very faint, on the edge of our ability to detect it. It was just discovered in our data from last month.

– Scott Sheppard

Found on CNN 5 years ago

We are very uniform in our sky coverage and can find all types of orbits, yet we seem to only be finding objects with similar types of orbits that are on the same side of the sky, suggesting something is shepherding them into these similar types of orbits, which we believe is Planet X, what makes this result really interesting is that Planet X seems to affect 2015 TG387 the same way as all the other extremely distant Solar System objects. These simulations do not prove that there's another massive planet in our Solar System, but they are further evidence that something big could be out there.

– Scott Sheppard

Found on CNN 6 years ago

They can be used as probes to understand what is happening at the edge of Solar System.

– Scott Sheppard

Found on CNN 6 years ago

This new object has the largest orbit of all the extremely distant objects that stay well beyond Pluto.

– Scott Sheppard

Found on CNN 6 years ago

I think we are nearing the 90 % likelihood of Planet X being real with this discovery.

– Scott Sheppard

Found on CNN 6 years ago

These distant objects are like breadcrumbs leading us to Planet X, the more of them we can find, the better we can understand the outer Solar System and the possible planet that we think is shaping their orbits -- a discovery that would redefine our knowledge of the Solar System's evolution.

– Scott Sheppard

Found on CNN 6 years ago

It would pretty much revolutionize our thinking how solar systems form.

– Scott Sheppard