Consider the following statements Jupiter has more number of moons than saturn Saturn 39 s all moon ...........

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Consider the following statements:

Jupiter has more number of moons than saturn.
Saturn's all moon are prograde whereas jupiter moons are retrograde.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

1 only

2 only

Both 1 and 2

None of the above

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Context-With the discovery of 20 more moons orbiting Saturn, the ringed planet has overtaken Jupiter as host to the most moons in the Solar system.

Saturn now has 82 known moons, whereas Jupiter has a paltry 79.
Each group is thought to have formed from a collision or fragmentation of a larger moon. The Norse group consists of some of the most distant moons of Saturn, which orbit in the opposite direction to the rotation of the planet. This suggests they could have formed elsewhere and were later captured by the gravitational force of Saturn.
Of the 20 new moons, 17 belong to the Norse group including the furthest known moon from the planet. Their estimated sizes are of the order of 5km in diameter.
Only three of the 20 moons are prograde, meaning they orbit Saturn in the same direction as the planet spins. The rest travel in the opposite, or retrograde, direction. One of these has the widest orbit of any of Saturn’s known moons.