Sixtieth moon discovered orbiting Saturn

Firstly, I only thought Saturn had around 16 moons and since the Cassini probe was launched in 1997, NASA, ESA and ASI (Italian NASA) have found another 44, including the one in this article. I’m no astronomer but when an object only couple kilometers wide is orbiting a planet as large as Saturn, it shouldn’t be called a moon. I feel it should be labelled a satellite or object. I am willing to cut Mars some slack on Phobos and Deimos because I don’t want mankind’s next major space-travel destination to suffer from envy which will be projected on the future Martians (Terran/human colonists).

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