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Tiny Moon feeds largest ring around saturn
PARIS: Anew mega ring has discovered around Saturn. Scientist believe that its genesis is a small moon of a distant giant planet. Phoebe, a Saturnian satellite measuring only 214 kilometres (133 miles) across, probably provides the record-breaking...
New Ring Found Orbiting Saturn
NASA has discovered a new ring orbiting the 6th planet from the sun, Saturn. This ring is an elliptical montrosity that goes around the planet at a range from 3.7 million to 7.4 million miles. NASA reported that the Spitzer Space Telescope...
Tags: planet, Saturn, new ring, rings of Saturn, ring, debris, meteorite, infrared, telescope, Spitzer, moon, Phoebe, orbit
Cape Times, South Africa: Saturn moon may have its own ring
Cape Town :: South Africa | about 1 month ago
Credibility
Saturn's second largest moon Rhea could have at least one ring, the first to be discovered around a planet's satellite, researchers reported in Friday's edition of the journal Science. A broad debris disk and at least one ring appear to have been detected...
Giant ring detected around Saturn
Pasadena :: TX :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility The dusty hoop extends some 13 million km from the planet, about 50 times further out into space than its more familiar rings. Scientists tell the journal Nature that the tenuous ring is probably made up of debris kicked off Saturn's moon Phoebe by small...
Tags: Saturn, million km, faint rings, Spitzer, million miles
General Motors to Shut Down Saturn
A few months back, it seemed as though the Saturn brand would be saved. The Penske Group agreed to buy the struggling General Motors production and vehicles like the Ion and the VUE would "live to see another day." Now, however, the plug has...
Tags: Saturn, General Motors, Penske
GM to shut Saturn as Penske deal fails
Detroit :: MI :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility It may have been a different kind of company making a different kind of car, but it is screeching to a familiar halt. Saturn -- one of General Motors' most ambitious attempts to appeal to foreign-car buyers -- instead will share the ash heap with ghosts...
Tags: General Motors Co GM, Penske Automotive Group Inc., Roger Penske, saturn brand, General Motors Co., Saturn, supply vehicles, Ford Motor Co., fell apart
Scientists spot massive methane rainstorm over Titan
Portland :: ME :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Astronomers have discovered a storm system on Titan the size of India. It popped up in April 2008 in the moon's tropics, a latitude belt not known for cloudiness. The storm, reported in the latest edition of the journal Nature, is another "a-ha" moment...
Tags: moon Titan, Saturn
Saturn's Rings to Disappear Tuesday
New York :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility In a celestial feat any magician would appreciate, Saturn will make its wide but thin ring system disappear from our view Aug. 11. Saturn's rings, loaded with ice and mud, boulders and tiny moons, is 170,000 miles wide...The rings harbor 35 trillion-trillion...
Tags: Saturn
Saturn: The Magic Planet
On Earth twice each year it's residents celebrate the equinox - the time when the sun's rays fall directly on the equator. But not all planets are created equal. On Saturn it takes 29 Earth years to achieve what Earth does in one - make one circuit...
TG Daily: Saturn moon may have liquid water
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Saturn's moon Enceladus may have an ocean of water, kept liquid by ammonia, say scientists. Writing in Nature , a team led by William Lewis of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas say that ammonia could keep underground oceans from...
Tags: Saturn, liquid water
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