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Two New Saturnian Moons

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the heavenly-bodies dept.

Mixel writes "NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting saturn since the 30th of June has uncovered two previously unknown bodies. 'The moons are approximately 3 kilometers (2 miles) and 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) across -- smaller than the city of Boulder, Colorado.' The Huygens probe will be deployed to the large (bigger than Mercury!) yet mysterious moon, Titan, in December."

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  1. Bld City Council Annex moons, declares openspace by turtleshadow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Meanwhile to block big box stores the Boulder City council annexes the moons and declares them openspace.

    Boulder now 30 some miles surrounded by reality and still hounded by a constant football scandal.

    Property tax assessments to rise yet again.

    Local bus service to the moons is be nickednamed trek, to compliment the hop, skip, jump and bound routes; However no trek service after midnight.