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== Satellites ==
 
== Satellites ==
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Saturn has at least sixty confirmed satellites and three unconfirmed satellites. Of the sixty known satellites, five are "ring shepherds."<ref>The three unconfirmed satellites, if confirmed, would also be ring shepherds. In addition, the A ring has a large collection of "moonlets" that shepherd the other smaller particles.</ref> Two of the satellites, [[Epimetheus]] and [[Janus]], actually exchange orbits regularly. Two of the largest moons, [[Tethys (moon)|Tethys]] and [[Dione]], each have two moons that occupy the stable libration or "Trojan" points in their respective orbits. Most of Saturn's moons lie beyond the orbit of [[Iapetus (moon)|Iapetus]], the outermost of the large spheroidal moons.
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Saturn has at least sixty confirmed satellites and three unconfirmed satellites. Of the sixty known satellites, five are "ring shepherds."<ref>The three unconfirmed satellites, if confirmed, would also be ring shepherds. In addition, the A ring has a large collection of "moonlets" that shepherd the other smaller particles.</ref> Two of the satellites, [[Epimetheus (moon)|Epimetheus]] and [[Janus]], actually exchange orbits regularly. Two of the largest moons, [[Tethys (moon)|Tethys]] and [[Dione]], each have two moons that occupy the stable libration or "Trojan" points in their respective orbits. Most of Saturn's moons lie beyond the orbit of [[Iapetus (moon)|Iapetus]], the outermost of the large spheroidal moons.
    
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