Saturn May Have Given Birth To a Baby Moon

astroengine (1577233) writes "NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft has imaged something peculiar on the outermost edge of the gas giant's A-ring. A bright knot, or arc, has been spotted 20 percent brighter than the surrounding ring material and astronomers are interpreting it as a gravitational disturbance caused by a tiny moon. "We have not seen anything like this before," said Carl Murray of Queen Mary University of London. 'We may be looking at the act of birth, where this object is just leaving the rings and heading off to be a moon in its own right.'"

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CFAFI ACQUIRES DICE HOLDINGS, INC.

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I am proud to announce that the Campaign for a Fre Internet, guided by the infallible and all-seeing wisdom of our president for life Laura, has become the sole owner of the failing internet scam company, "Dice Holdings Inc." CFAFI bought DHI for five cents and two billion dollars in stock.

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