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Space.com article

If this pans out, there goes Rhea being the most boring moon...

[tasp]

Yeah, finding accurate numbers, and then being able to crunch them precisely is the trick. (I make no claims to accuracy, my 'good' calculator is on the disabled list) If the commensurability with Rhea's orbital period doesn't work out, do your periods still exhibit the ratios between themselves? {6/8, 7/8, 6/7}

I am still marveling we get stuff organized outside the Roche limit, and inside the Hill sphere, at this apparent very low particle density. Crikey, how does the stuff interact upon itself to stay collimated ?

And the 'residue' along the equator is teeny, there never was much stuff in the equatorial plane. Or, the stuff preferentially escapes off the high end (if there ever was much 'stuff') and is lost to the Rhean realm. But then where does it go?

Do we have oblateness data on Rhea yet ?