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    Moons of Saturn
    The moons of Saturn are numerous and diverse, ranging from tiny moonlets only tens of meters across to the enormous Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury. Saturn has 83 known moons with confirmed orbits as of 2023, not counting the many thousands of moonlets embedded within its dense rings as well as hundreds of potential kilometer-sized distant moons that were briefly seen by telescopes. Seven Saturnian moons are large enough to have collapsed into a relaxed, ellipsoidal shape, though only one or two of those, Titan and possibly Rhea, are currently in hydrostatic equilibrium. Particularly notable among Saturn's moons are Titan, the second-largest moon in the Solar System (after Jupiter's Ganymede), with a nitrogen-rich Earth-like atmosphere and a landscape featuring dry river networks and hydrocarbon lakes, Enceladus, which emits jets of ice from its south-polar region and is covered in a deep layer of snow, and Iapetus, with its contrasting black and white hemispheres. Twenty-four of Saturn's moons are regular satellites; they have prograde orbits not greatly inclined to Saturn's equatorial plane. They include the seven...
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn
    Moons of Saturn
    The moons of Saturn are numerous and diverse, ranging from tiny moonlets only tens of meters across to the enormous Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury. Saturn has 83 known moons with confirmed orbits as of 2023, not counting the many thousands of moonlets embedded within its dense rings as well as hundreds of potential kilometer-sized distant moons that were briefly seen by telescopes. Seven Saturnian moons are large enough to have collapsed into a relaxed, ellipsoidal shape, though only one or two of those, Titan and possibly Rhea, are currently in hydrostatic equilibrium. Particularly notable among Saturn's moons are Titan, the second-largest moon in the Solar System (after Jupiter's Ganymede), with a nitrogen-rich Earth-like atmosphere and a landscape featuring dry river networks and hydrocarbon lakes, Enceladus, which emits jets of ice from its south-polar region and is covered in a deep layer of snow, and Iapetus, with its contrasting black and white hemispheres. Twenty-four of Saturn's moons are regular satellites; they have prograde orbits not greatly inclined to Saturn's equatorial plane. They include the seven...
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn
    Moons of Saturn
    The moons of Saturn are numerous and diverse, ranging from tiny moonlets only tens of meters across to the enormous Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury. Saturn has 83 known moons with confirmed orbits as of 2023, not counting the many thousands of moonlets embedded within its dense rings as well as hundreds of potential kilometer-sized distant moons that were briefly seen by telescopes. Seven Saturnian moons are large enough to have collapsed into a relaxed, ellipsoidal shape, though only one or two of those, Titan and possibly Rhea, are currently in hydrostatic equilibrium. Particularly notable among Saturn's moons are Titan, the second-largest moon in the Solar System (after Jupiter's Ganymede), with a nitrogen-rich Earth-like atmosphere and a landscape featuring dry river networks and hydrocarbon lakes, Enceladus, which emits jets of ice from its south-polar region and is covered in a deep layer of snow, and Iapetus, with its contrasting black and white hemispheres. Twenty-four of Saturn's moons are regular satellites; they have prograde orbits not greatly inclined to Saturn's equatorial plane. They include the seven...
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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean_moons
    Galilean moons
    The Galilean moons (), or Galilean satellites, are the four largest moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. They are the most readily visible Solar System objects after Saturn, the dimmest of the classical planets, which are readily visible from Earth by the unaided eye, even under night sky conditions of high light pollution. Visible with common binoculars, the invention of the telescope enabled the discovery of the moons in 1610. Through this they became the first Solar System objects discovered since humans have started tracking the classical planets, and the first objects to be found to orbit a planet other than the Earth. They are among the largest objects in the Solar System with the exception of the Sun and the eight planets, with radii greater than any of the dwarf planets. The largest of the four are Ganymede, which is the largest moon in the Solar System, and Callisto, both of which are either larger or as large as the planet Mercury, though not nearly as massive. The smaller ones, Io and Europa, are about the size of the Moon. The three inner moons—Io, Europa, Ganymede—are in a 4:2:1 orbital resonance with each other. While...
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  • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010Natur.468..943C
    Origin of Saturn's rings and inner moons by mass removal from a lost Titan-sized satellite
    The origin of Saturn's rings has not been adequately explained. The current rings are more than 90 to 95 per cent water ice, which implies that initially they were almost pure ice because they are continually polluted by rocky meteoroids. In contrast, a half-rock, half-ice mixture (similar to the composition of many of the satellites in the outer Solar System) would generally be expected. Previous ring origin theories invoke the collisional disruption of a small moon, or the tidal disruption of a comet during a close passage by Saturn. These models are improbable and/or struggle to account for basic properties of the rings, including their icy composition. Saturn has only one large satellite, Titan, whereas Jupiter has four large satellites; additional large satellites probably existed originally but were lost as they spiralled into Saturn. Here I report numerical simulations of the tidal removal of mass from a differentiated, Titan-sized satellite as it migrates inward towards Saturn. Planetary tidal forces preferentially strip material from the satellite's outer icy layers, while its rocky core remains intact and is lost to collision with the planet. The result is a pure ice ring much more massive than Saturn's current rings. As the ring evolves, its mass decreases and icy moons are spawned from its outer edge with estimated masses consistent with Saturn's ice-rich moons interior to and including Tethys.
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  • https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-astronomers-discover-record-breaking-62-moons-around-saturn/
    Astronomers discover record-breaking 62 moons around Saturn
    The Canadian-led team spotted a majority of the moons for the first time in data gathered by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in 2019 and 2020
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    Astronomers discover record-breaking 62 moons around Saturn
    The Canadian-led team spotted a majority of the moons for the first time in data gathered by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in 2019 and 2020
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  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15285
    Moons Are Planets: Scientific Usefulness Versus Cultural Teleology in the Taxonomy of Planetary Science
    We argue that taxonomical concept development is vital for planetary science as in all branches of science, but its importance has been obscured by unique historical developments. The literature shows that the concept of planet developed by scientists during the Copernican Revolution was theory-laden and pragmatic for science. It included both primaries and satellites as planets due to their common intrinsic, geological characteristics. About two centuries later the non-scientific public had just adopted heliocentrism and was motivated to preserve elements of geocentrism including teleology and the assumptions of astrology. This motivated development of a folk concept of planet that contradicted the scientific view. The folk taxonomy was based on what an object orbits, making satellites out to be non-planets and ignoring most asteroids. Astronomers continued to keep primaries and moons classed together as planets and continued teaching that taxonomy until the 1920s. The astronomical community lost interest in planets ca. 1910 to 1955 and during that period complacently accepted the folk concept. Enough time has now elapsed so that modern astronomers forgot this history and rewrote it to claim that the folk taxonomy is the one that was created by the Copernican scientists. Starting ca. 1960 when spacecraft missions were developed to send back detailed new data, there was an explosion of publishing about planets including the satellites, leading to revival of the Copernican planet concept. We present evidence that taxonomical alignment with geological complexity is the most useful scientific taxonomy for planets. It is this complexity of both primary and secondary planets that is a key part of the chain of origins for life in the cosmos.
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  • https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/overview/
    Moons
    Moons, also known as natural satellites, orbit planets and asteroids.
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  • https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022Icar..37414768M
    Moons are planets: Scientific usefulness versus cultural teleology in the taxonomy of planetary science
    We argue that taxonomical concept development is vital for planetary science as in all branches of science, but its importance has been obscured by unique historical developments. The literature shows that the concept of planet developed by scientists during the Copernican Revolution was theory-laden and pragmatic for science. It included both primaries and satellites as planets due to their common intrinsic, geological characteristics. About two centuries later the non-scientific public had just adopted heliocentrism and was motivated to preserve elements of geocentrism including teleology and the assumptions of astrology. This motivated development of a folk concept of planet that contradicted the scientific view. The folk taxonomy was based on what an object orbits, making satellites out to be non-planets and ignoring most asteroids. Astronomers continued to keep primaries and moons classed together as planets and continued teaching that taxonomy until the 1920s. The astronomical community lost interest in planets ca. 1910 to 1955 and during that period complacently accepted the folk concept. Enough time has now elapsed so that modern astronomers forgot this history and rewrote it to claim that the folk taxonomy is the one that was created by the Copernican scientists. Starting ca. 1960 when spacecraft missions were developed to send back detailed new data, there was an explosion of publishing about planets including the satellites, leading to revival of the Copernican planet concept. We present evidence that taxonomical alignment with geological complexity is the most useful scientific taxonomy for planets. It is this complexity of both primary and secondary planets that is a key part of the chain of origins for life in the cosmos.
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  • § Output

    > ['<matplotlib.collections.PathCollection at 0x1a1f5f7278>']
    >


    § Markdown

    ### K-Means Clustering Algorithm
    K-means clustering is an unsupervised learning algorithm that groups data points into a specified number of clusters. The algorithm works iteratively to assign each data point to one of k clusters based on the feature similarity. Data points are clustered based on feature similarity. The results of the K-means clustering algorithm are:
    • The centroids of the K clusters, which can be used to label new data points • Labels for the training data (each data point is assigned to a single cluster)
    The K-means algorithm aims to choose centroids that minimise the inertia, or within-cluster sum-of-squares criterion:

    Inertia = Sum of squared distances of samples to their closest cluster center

    The goal is to find centroids that minimize this criterion. This can be achieved by running the following steps:

    1. Initialize cluster centers randomly
    2. Assign each sample to its closest cluster center according to some distance metric (e.g., Euclidean distance)
    3. Compute and place new cluster centers as barycenters (mean) of the samples in the new clusters
    4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until some convergence criteria is met (e.g., no samples changed clusters in an iteration).

    Once convergence is reached, we have a partitioning of the original dataset into k clusters with associated centroids, which can be used for labeling new data points or for further analysis and visualization.

    In this example, we will use Scikit Learn's implementation of K-means clustering to group our moon dataset into two clusters and visualize them using matplotlib's pyplot library. We will also calculate the inertia value for our model and use it as a measure of how well our model has clustered our data points:


    § Code

    #import required libraries for kmeans clustering and plotting results
    from sklearn import datasets,cluster,metrics #importing datasets from sklearn library
    from sklearn.cluster import KMeans #importing kmeans from sklearn library
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt #importing pyplot from matplotlib library

    #creating kmeans object with 2 clusters
    k_means = KMeans(n_clusters=2)

    #fitting our input data i.e moons dataset into kmeans object
    k_means = k_means.fit(moons)

    #getting predicted values i.e labels/categories assigned by kmeas object into labels variable
    labels = k_means .labels_

    #calculating inertia value for our model using inertia_ attribute of kmeas object
    inertia = k_means .inertia_

    #printing calculated inertia value print("Inertia: ",inertia)

    #visualizing output by plotting original moons dataset with predicted labels/categories assigned by kmean object plt .scatter(moons[:,0],moons[:,1], c=labels , s=50 , cmap='viridis') plt .show()

    Inertia: 0.3720307737952545

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  • The Galilean moons of Jupiter are the four largest moons of the planet Jupiter—Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. They were first observed by Galileo Galilei in 1610. They are the first objects found to orbit another planet and were the first known members of what is now known as the Solar System's planetary satellite system.

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