Oddly, in April 1861, Hermann Goldschmidt had also believed that he had discovered a new satellite of Saturn between Titan and Hyperion, which he called Chiron. Chiron also does not exist (however, the name was used much later for the comet/asteroid 2060 Chiron).

Pickering was awarded the Lalande Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 1906 for his "discovery of the ninth and tenth satellites of Saturn".

The actual tenth satellite of Saturn (in order of discovery) was Janus, which was discovered in 1966 and confirmed in 1980. Its orbit is far from the supposed orbit of Themis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_natural_satellites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themis_%28moon%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiron_%28hypothetical_moon%29

Note this is after suggestions that water was on Mars and that one of our probes may have killed life there. Not to mention the strange structures that others seem to think exist on mars that seem man made. There are even pictures of what look like trees on earth on the surface of Mars and strange objects that look too complex to be natural. What is NASA hiding by stating they are flubbing their telemetry and Mars geo-mapping systems? $154-million down the tubes.

NASA Report: Human Error Doomed Mars Surveyor
By VOA News
14 April 2007


The U.S. space agency NASA says human error led to the loss of the Mars Global Surveyor orbiting probe last November.

Officials say the problems began in 2005, when a routine update sent to the probe's computers caused an inconsistency. Flight engineers tried to fix the problem nine months later, but uploaded faulty commands that caused Surveyor's solar panels to rotate too far.

When flight controllers sent a command to the spacecraft to adjust its solar panels in November, the probe pointed itself toward the sun, exposing one if its two batteries to direct sunlight. The battery overheated, and both batteries eventually died.

NASA officials say mission engineers followed existing procedures that were inadequate to catch the errors.

The Mars Global Surveyor was launched in 1996, and reached the Red Planet's orbit 10 months later. It eventually sent back 240,000 images of the Martian surface back to Earth. Originally planned to last just two years, the Surveyor operated at Mars longer than any other spacecraft.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-04-14-voa26.cfm