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Pioneer 11's 'near miss' at Saturn
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post Mar 16 2007, 02:56 PM
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A couple of websites state that Pioneer 11 discovered a new moon of Saturn during its 1979 flyby and nearly collided with it.

http://www.uwgb.edu/DutchS/CosmosNotes/voyagr00.htm

The website says Pioneer 11 missed the previously unknown moon by only a few hundred km.

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/planets/satslid.htm

Apparently the spacecraft inferred the moon's existance by the disturbances it created in Saturn's magnetic field.

Is this right? Did Pioneer 11 nearly end its mission in an unforseen Deep Impact style crash?


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- As old as Voyager   Pioneer 11's 'near miss' at Saturn   Mar 16 2007, 02:56 PM
- - Ian R   According to the American Geophysical Union's ...   Jun 1 2007, 11:17 PM
- - scalbers   The details might be elsewhere in this forum ...   Jun 2 2007, 04:26 PM
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- - Ian R   Yes, this is the discovery image from 1966: htt...   Jun 2 2007, 06:48 PM
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- - Ian R   Using Mark Showalter's superlative Saturn View...   Nov 5 2020, 06:51 AM
- - Ian R   We can also confirm that Pioneer 11 was the first ...   Nov 5 2020, 07:26 AM

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