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Saturn's Rings May Be Very Old

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the even-older-than-bob dept.

Kristina from Science News writes "Combining computer simulations with data about the way starlight shines through Saturn's rings suggests the individual grains are big and thus could have been around a good 4 billion years, not the mere 10 million to 100 million previously suspected. What may have thrown earlier observations off is the chance that the grains aren't evenly distributed, but clump here and spread out there."

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  1. So what? by Longwalker-MGO · · Score: 0, Troll

    I am glad she is all happy they found this out; hopefully she gets laid or something over it. Outside of her husband and the people who decided they needed to figure this out, who cares??? What does anyone get out of whether they are 10 minutes or 10 billion years old?

  2. Re:Uranus! by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, I'm not clicking on any links in this section. I didn't provide a link out of consideration for others.

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    Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.