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What are the names of Saturn's main moons?

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It depends on what you mean by "main." Saturn has 62 known moons and more are being discovered all the time so that will probably be out of date by the time you read this! But the nine largest moons of Saturn (which were known before the space age) are, in order from Saturn:

Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus, Phoebe.

All of these large moons except Hyperion and Phoebe (the smallest of the nine) are large enough for their own gravity to pull them into a round shape, like a planet.

You can remember the order of the nine main moons from Saturn with the mnemonic "Met Dr. Thip," where the letters stand for the first letter of each moon, e.g. M=Mimas, e=Enceladus, t=Tethys etc.

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