NASA experts with the help of wide-angle Cassini’s camera have discovered near Saturn one more satellite - 60-th.
The newborn satellite, which is about two kilometers, was named Frank. This one is the smallest of satellites as till now three-kilometer Mrtona was considered as such, and the majority from new opened bodies rotating around the giant planet have 5-7 kilometers in diameter.
Experts mark what more detailed study of the satellite will be possible in December, 2009 when Cassini probe will come nearer to Frank on distance of 7 270 miles.
When Cassini probe was launched to Saturn in 1997, experts knew only 18 its satellites. And Frank became the 17-th object which scientists have seen with the help of the probe.
Since 2005 scientists have revealed 23 Saturn’s satellites and also new satellites of Uranus and the Jupiter. But according to experts, actually Saturn has much more satellites – according to Cassini’s data, there are about 10 million unopened satellites inside Saturn rings, but they are, most likely, microsatellites which are splinters in the size about 330 ft.

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