Jupiter Moon Update! 79 and Counting!

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Jupiter wants to share his good news with the Sun! More moons have been discovered! Should he do the "Name Your Moons Challenge!" again?

Scott Sheppard and his team of astronomers from the Carnegie Institution of Science just found a bunch more tiny moons orbiting Jupiter! He now has at least 79 moons! Isn’t that exciting? They expect to find a lot more moons orbiting Jupiter too. The new moons are very small, the smallest being just over a kilometer in diameter. 7 of the moons are in a retrograde orbit, which means they orbit the opposite direction that Jupiter rotates. There is also one moon nicknamed "oddball" that has a stranger orbit and is the smallest at approximately 1 kilometer in diameter.

Keep watching the skies!

Up to this point Jupiter's moons included: Ganymede, Isonoe, Europa, Io, Herse, Kore, Kallichore , Themisto,
Sinope, Leda , Callisto, Erinome, Adrastea, Eurydome, Amalthea, Metis, Euporie, Chaldene, Kalyke, Thebe, Cyllene, Hegemone Carpo , Mneme,
Hermippe, Elara, Carme,Iocaste, Pasiphaë, Aoede, Praxidike, Helike, Kale, Callirrhoe, Megaclite, Orthosie, Eukelade, Arche, Pasithee, Dia, Sponde, Taygete, Thelxinoe, Euanthe, Autonoe, Ananke, Thyone, Aitne, Lysithea,
Harpalyke, Himalia, Jupiter L1, Jupiter L2, S/2003 J2, S/2003 J3,
S/2003 J4, S/2003 J5, S/2003 J9, S/2003 J10, S/2003 J12,S/2003 J15,
S/2003 J16, S/2003 J18, S/2003 J19, S/2003 J23, S/2011 J1, S/2011 J2,
S/2016 J1, and S/2017 J1.