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  • Cassini Finds 'Missing Link' Moonlet Evidence in Saturn's Rings

    03/29/2006 8:18:01 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 12 replies · 575+ views
    JPL/ NASA ^ | 3/29/06
    Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have found evidence that a new class of small moonlets resides within Saturn's rings. There may be as many as 10 million of these objects within one of Saturn's rings alone. The moonlets' existence could help answer the question of whether Saturn's rings were formed through the break-up of a larger body or are the remnants of the disk of material from which Saturn and its moons formed. "These moonlets are likely to be chunks of the ancient body whose break-up produced Saturn's glorious rings," said Joseph Burns of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., a co-author...
  • Cassini CHAT now Online and available... IRC (freenode.net)

    06/09/2004 1:40:56 PM PDT · by Pandelirium · 3 replies · 430+ views
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    Cassini CHAT online on IRC (freenode) The Cassini Chat has been activated and is now available without password to the public. Anyone interested in the discussion should log-in to the irc.freenode.net servers and point your chat-client to the #cassini room. There you will find some of the people involved with the project, many very knowledgable people involved in other space projects, as well as those interested in these endeavours ...(like you). We also moderate the Mars Rover chat as well which is located in the #maestro room. Maestro is the free 'public-outreach' software based on the actual program that JPL...