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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. That's no moon. by morgan_greywolf · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or:

    One moon to rule them all
    One moon to find them
    One moon to bring them all into the darkness
    and bind them!

    Okay, okay...hey! No hard fruits!

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  2. Ring metal? Oh, bugger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I thought Frodo took care of all that.