The International Astronomical Union will recognize another 62 moons of Saturn. With these small objects, Saturn will have 145 moons, eclipsing Jupiter's 95.
Most of Saturn's irregular moons orbit the planet in what astronomers call the Inuit, Norse and Gallic groups. The objects in each group can be remnants of larger moons, up to 240 kilometers in diameter, that were destroyed by asteroid or comet impacts or by collisions between two moons. "They could be what formed in the region of the giant planets, probably very ice-rich," astronomer says.