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Guest_AlexBlackwell_*	Mar 29 2006, 05:52 PM Post #1
Guests	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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ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Mar 30 2006, 03:42 PM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	I am surprised that no one has addressed the real issues here: Are these mini-moons actual moons? How small or large does an object have to be to differentiate between being a ring particle and a moon? What are we going to name them all? Will any of us still be alive by the time the IAU makes a decision on these matters? -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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