Can You Guess Which Of These Names Are Moons Of Saturn And Which Are IKEA Furniture?

An astronomer has taken to Twitter to spotlight some of the unearthly names give to Saturn ’s moons – by comparing them to pieces of Ikea piece of furniture .

Dr Sarah Hörst , Assistant Professor of Planetary Science at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland , has been twinge out strange word and asking people to guess if they are moons of Saturn or the Swedish piece of furniture giant ’s household aim . And it ’s harder than you might think .

“ I ’m entice to play a plot where you have to guess if a name is a synodic month of Saturn or a piece of IKEA furniture , ” she wrote .

There have been a fistful of polls so far , with people , for the most part , being capable to guess the right answer . The slick one has been Narvi , with 163 elector almost split down the middle as to which one it was .

So as not to spoil things , we ’ll mail the poll so far here . Then further down , will say you which was which . Dr Hörst is doing about one per day at the minute , with the current vote asking multitude to guess what Jarnsaxa is .

Saturn has62 moonsin total , although only 52 of these have names . The rest have been generate numeric cognomen come to to when they were name . Of those that are named , Titan is by far the largest , being bigger than all the other Moon combined .

The moons wereoriginally namedafter mythological Greek Titans , Titanesses , and behemoth . Once those were used up , however , various giant from other mythologies were used , while the minuscule oddly shaped moons are named after Inuit and Gallic gods , and Norse ice giant .

This leads to some rather strange name choices . There ’s Polydeuces , Kiviuq , Skoll , Hyperion , and other unearthly thing used to name them . Some of the more famous , aside from Titan , are Enceladus with itsicy surface , Mimas with itsDeath Star - likecrater , and Iapetus with itstwo - tonedsurface .

And that ’s moderately disposed when compare to IKEA article of furniture , also known for its freakish Swedish condition . EverythingfromFyrkantig to Grönkulla to Dagstorp is used to describe humble household point . Who roll in the hay they ’d be so similar to celestial objects , too ?

Anyway , without further ado , here are the answers to the opinion poll that have finished so far . How many did you get right ?