A team of astronomers using the new telescope in Hawaii reported each discovery of 11 new moons to the planet Jupiter. This broke the record for the number of moons, and Jupiter now holds it: 39 moons. The 11 new moons are small lumps of rock with a diameter of 1 to 2 km, which were probably captured by Jupiter and did not form near it. They resemble asteroids in their non-spherical shape, and are probably rocky in composition. The team of researchers led by Dr. David Joitz and Dr. Scott Shepard from the University of Hawaii photographed Jupiter using the 3.6 meter diameter telescope located at the Canadian-French-Hawaii observatory on which one of the largest digital cameras in the world was mounted. The team found the 11 new satellites in elongated, elliptical and highly inclined orbits, orbiting against the direction of Jupiter's self-rotation. Such trajectories indicate the possibility of entrapment.
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