New ring discovered around Saturn?

Answer 1

New ring discovered around Saturn

The faint ring is marked by a black cross
The Cassini spacecraft has identified a faint, previously unknown ring circling the giant planet Saturn.
It appears to be composed of material blasted off the surface of two saturnian moons by meteoroid impacts.

The moons Janus and Epimetheus may be too small to hold on to dust kicked out by these impacts, so it escapes into space, spreading out into a ring.

The tenuous, wispy ring coincides with the orbits of these two moons, mission scientists noted.

Researchers expected meteoroid impacts on Janus and Epimetheus to kick particles off the moons' surfaces and inject them into an orbit around Saturn. But they were surprised to find such a well-defined ring at this location.

Answer 2

New ring discovered around Saturn

By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online science editor

Scientists using the Cassini probe have found a new ring and one, possibly two, new objects orbiting Saturn.

The discoveries are in the planet's contorted F-ring region, and look to be associated with Saturn's moon Atlas.

University of London scientists working on the four-year mission say that confirmation of another moon would raise Saturn's tally to 34 satellites.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a joint venture of the US, European and Italian space agencies.

Barely detectable object

The Cassini-Huygens mission is continuing to provide new discoveries at the Saturn system.

A small object was discovered moving near the outside edge of the F-ring, interior to the orbit of Saturn's moon Pandora.

It was first seen by Professor Carl Murray, Cassini Imaging Team member at Queen Mary College, University of London, in images taken on 21 June 2004, just days before Cassini arrived at Saturn.

"I noticed this barely detectable object skirting the outer part of the F-ring. It was an incredible privilege to be the first person to spot it." Murray's group at Queen Mary was the first to calculate an orbit for the object.

Scientists cannot yet definitively say if it is a moon or a temporary "clump".

If it is a moon, its diameter is estimated to be 4-5km (two to three miles) and it is located 1,000km (620 miles) from the F-ring, Saturn's outermost ring.

It is at a distance of approximately 141,000km (86,000 miles) from the centre of Saturn and within 300km (190 miles) of the orbit of the moon Pandora. The object has been provisionally named S/2004 S3.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3641112.stm

Answer 3

"in view that NASA ( Atheists headquarters)has got here round the hot earrings does that advise they exist now ?" NASA isn't an Atheist HQ. convinced, it exists because that's been bodily pronounced making use of infrared sensors. no one knew about it earlier, because no one seen looking that a concepts from Saturn for a hoop. curiously the ring is so huge that it may in tremendous condition a million billion plus Earths in it. technology is wonderful.

Answer 4

who knows? is it going a different way than all the rest, or is it just a different count of the ones there already?

Answer 5

Really....& this one makes the total of what 13 rings....

Answer 6

they think its a tiger eye set with two rubies

Answer 7

Yes, it got married again to Jupiter.

Answer 8

tell me the answer when you get it

Answer 9

she got it at tiffanys

Answer 10

interesting.