Sentence examples for regular moons of from inspiring English sources

Dione, fourth nearest of the major regular moons of Saturn.

Mimas, smallest and innermost of the major regular moons of Saturn.

Enceladus, second nearest of the major regular moons of Saturn and the brightest of all its moons.

Rhea, major regular moon of Saturn and the planet's second largest, after Titan.

Tethys, major regular moon of Saturn, remarkable for a fissure that wraps around the greater part of its circumference.

Iapetus, outermost of Saturn's major regular moons, extraordinary because of its great contrast in surface brightness.

It is interesting that the density distribution of Jupiter's Galilean satellites, its four largest regular moons, mirrors that of the planets in the solar system at large.

Triton's initially eccentric orbit would have intersected orbits of irregular moons and disrupted those of smaller regular moons, dispersing them through gravitational interactions.

A basic sub-division is a grouping of the eight inner regular moons, which have nearly circular orbits near the plane of Jupiter's equator and are believed to have formed with Jupiter.

Its orbit is significantly eccentric, retrograde, and steeply inclined to the plane of Saturn's rings and regular moons.

It has been suggested that Iapetus's 15° average inclination is a relic of the tilt of the long-vanished gaseous disk from which Saturn's major regular moons formed.