Saturn's bared mini-moons |
Saturn's bared mini-moons |
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Mar 29 2006, 05:52 PM
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There is a new Cassini-related paper by Tiscareno et al. (and accompanying News and Views piece by Spahn and Schmidt) in the March 30, 2006, issue of Nature. See also the Editor's Summary: Propelled into the limelight.
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Mar 30 2006, 02:27 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
This kind of discovery is one of the reasons why I'm in favor of closer and closer ring dives as Cassini nears the end of it's mission, sort of the way they got bolder and bolder with Galileo near Io as its days were numbered.
(...assuming of course the orbital mechanics would allow it. I put away my slide rule long ago, so I'll leave it up to you guys who crunch numbers for a living.) -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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