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15 years 2 months ago #81558 by Frank Ryan
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Wow.
Just saw a report on The 9 o clock RTE news regarding this.
Amazing new feature.
Even more amazing is that RTE ran it early and gave a
Seperate reporter to it.
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15 years 2 months ago #81559 by Kerry Stargazer
Replied by Kerry Stargazer on topic Re:New ring around Saturn
saw it to, man its big.
www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091007-saturn-big-ring.html
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15 years 2 months ago #81562 by dmcdona
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Picture here

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15 years 2 months ago #81566 by Kerry Stargazer
Replied by Kerry Stargazer on topic Re:New ring around Saturn
Wonder what the devision will be called:woohoo:
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15 years 2 months ago #81572 by dave_lillis
Replied by dave_lillis on topic Re:New ring around Saturn
Barberskum wrote:

Even more amazing is that RTE ran it early and gave a
Seperate reporter to it.

Maybe they though it was built by the the Liam O'Carroll group :laugh:
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15 years 2 months ago #81577 by mjc
Replied by mjc on topic Re:New ring around Saturn
Whats the story here?

I saw - a tantalisingly detailed article - on the BBC website (Science and Nature) on this.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8291905.stm

Now there is a new paper being submitted to Nature that suggests that material ejected from minor impacts to Phoebe (outer moon) migrate inwards and hit the leading edge of Iapetus (inner moon) - giving it a dark side and leaving a light side.

I'm still not sure if what is being reported is really a new ring.

Does anyone have a better understanding?

Mark

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