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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Cassini general discussion and science results _ Name That Gap

Posted by: Rob Pinnegar Sep 13 2005, 01:31 AM

From the Department of Massively Overexposed Images:

(hmm... let's see if this image actually gets included...)

I tried to identify this gap. This attempt ended in abject failure. Can anyone do better?

Posted by: volcanopele Sep 13 2005, 07:27 PM

The best I can do is say that it is in the Cassini Division, not sure on the gap. You can see the Encke gap...

Posted by: Rob Pinnegar Sep 14 2005, 12:13 AM

I don't think the main gap in the middle can be the Cassini Division. Look at where the F ring is relative to the outer edge of the A ring. The Cassini Division has got to be the barely visible faint gap on the RHS of the image. So the "big" gap has got to be a lot closer to Saturn. It's somewhere in the B or C rings.

I'm guessing Maxwell or Colombo, but just can't tell.