Posted on 09/05/2005 7:20:18 PM PDT by Zrob
New observations by the international Cassini spacecraft reveal that Saturn's trademark shimmering rings, which have dazzled astronomers since Galileo's time, have dramatically changed over just the past 25 years.
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Space Ping-worthy?
Why should scientists be puzzled? The ring system is kept in place by 'shepherd moons', and is plainly an n-body gravitationaly system for n>2. It therefore exhibits chaotic dyanmics and is predictable only in the short run.
Scientists Find That Saturn's Rotation Period Is A Puzzle
University of Iowa | June 28, 2004 | Gary Galluzzo and Don Gurnett
Posted on 01/13/2005 6:00:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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Cassini's first surprise: Saturn's magnetic field unlike Earth's
sfgate.com | 6/29/04 | David Perlman
Posted on 06/29/2004 10:26:23 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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