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Cassini finds a Saturn moonlet

upi.com — The U.S. space agency says its Cassini spacecraft has found a moonlet within Saturn's G ring that may be a main source of the G-ring and its single ring arc.

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  • BorsKaegel, on 03/04/2009, -0/+19That's no moon...
  • atomicpoet, on 03/03/2009, -0/+17Moonlets are the giblets of the planetary system.
  • Mexrocker, on 03/04/2009, -2/+14Everyone knows the G-ring is a myth...

    anyone? =/
  • derekmas10, on 03/04/2009, -0/+8dugg for the ugly ass panda baby next to the story.
  • inactive, on 03/04/2009, -0/+6That's one dusty G ring.
  • analogkid01, on 03/04/2009, -0/+5*crickets*
  • xCIone, on 04/15/2009, -1/+6Nice discovery.or is it?
  • scherzox, on 03/04/2009, -1/+6Let me see that thoooooong!
  • inactive, on 03/04/2009, -0/+4What the hell is wrong with you?
  • trollick, on 03/04/2009, -0/+4.. it's a moonlet
  • Nosyn, on 03/04/2009, -0/+4So the moons are acting like comets around Saturn and the rings are just dust and ice from the moons? Sounds like a kerfuffle to me.
  • systemghost, on 03/04/2009, -0/+3That's one big lady.
  • Anim8tor, on 03/04/2009, -0/+3A bright lump in a gossamer trail ...
  • atsguy, on 03/05/2009, -0/+3It could be the mothership near saturn...

    http://helloearth.info/

    go to Michael connection and nasa connection, read and listen...the cassini has been photographing a luminous sphere near Saturn since 2004...Michael along with another person called Riley martin were taken to the mothership years ago, amazing story!
  • CpAmerica8, on 03/04/2009, -0/+3havek, what do you like to do with dragon balls?
  • WitnessX, on 03/04/2009, -0/+2"G" Ring. <giggling>
  • CharlieHash, on 03/04/2009, -0/+2necessity is the mother of invention.
  • UncleKennybobs, on 03/06/2009, -0/+1Transcription.
  • armakaryk, on 03/04/2009, -1/+2http://instantcrickets.com/
  • slapded, on 03/04/2009, -3/+3Saturn Moons us again.
  • inactive, on 03/04/2009, -2/+2 huh, I always thought that the G-ring was a myth even though women told me that it existed.
  • saltinekracka20, on 03/04/2009, -5/+2Doesn't Saturn have like 60 moons already? SATURN YOU STINGY
  • havek23, on 03/04/2009, -10/+3That's the moon where Master Roshi lived! (Goku's mentor on DBZ)
  • frontaxle, on 03/04/2009, -9/+2Make up your own Uranus jokes.

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