Saturn's Ancient Rings (APOD 17 Dec 2007)

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nedkelly
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Saturn's Ancient Rings (APOD 17 Dec 2007)

Post by nedkelly » Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:18 pm

Is Darth Vader's replacement Death Star called Tethys?

Great Photo.
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Post by BMAONE23 » Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:08 pm

Gee, I thought it was MIMAS
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Post by Storm_norm » Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:00 pm

ok, so this makes sense.

instead of waiting to go the whole way out to the kuiper belt to find objects as old as the solar system, we now have a resevoir of material locked in the saturn rings. pretty convenient !!

IMHO

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