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Twelve New Moons for Saturn

The new satellites around Saturn brings the total to 46. They are
small--2 to 4 miles in diameter--but 11 of them orbit Saturn in the
opposite direction of the planet's spin. Such retrograde orbits are
a sign that the moons were captured by Saturn's gravitational pull
rather than formed from the same material as the planet. If so,
they could reveal clues as to how that capture took place, which is
still not entirely understood. One model assumes that objects
slowed as they passed through clouds of gas in the proto-solar
system. This explains captured moons around Jupiter and Saturn, but
not Neptune and Uranus which didn't have as much surrounding gas.
Another model has the moons colliding and transferring momentum to
other objects, but this is difficult to confirm in computer
simulations.