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Saturn's Moons Built From Ring Material

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lookit-all-them-moons-up-there dept.

LiquidCoooled writes "Two of Saturn's small moons look eerily like flying saucers, new observations by the Cassini spacecraft reveal. The moons, which lie within the giant planet's rings, may have come by their strange shape by gradually accumulating ring particles in a ridge around their equators."

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  1. Ring Material by CaseyB · · Score: 3, Funny

    Saturn's moons are made of Scrith?

    1. Re:Ring Material by OK+PC · · Score: 2, Funny

      Is Niven the guy who ripped off Halo?

      (I kid, I kid!)

      --
      Did you get that thing I sent ya?
  2. Re:Actually relevant by jav1231 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bravo..no really...pounding the anti-Bush rhetoric into a completely unrelated thread is awesome...

    Okay, Folks, I'll hold him down, someone get his medication ready.

  3. In other news.... by paintballer1087 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Astronomers have determined that the shape of the satellite determines whether it is classified as a moon or not. In an astounding landslide at the latest meeting, it was declared that saucer shaped satellites are to be labeled actual moons, while the spherical satellites are now called pseudo-moons. This in a new spree of reclassifications by astronomers has confused many people.