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Cassini – meteoroids are breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn’s rings [1]

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The Watchers - 28 April 2013 - by Chiffre

New results from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show that small meteoroids are breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn’s rings. Saturn’s rings are the only place besides Earth, the moon, and Jupiter where researchers along with amateur astronomers have been able to observe impacts as they happen, as this new observations show. By studying the impact rate of meteoroids from outside the Saturn’s system scientists can better understand how different planet systems in the Solar System formed. There are a lot of small, speeding objects in our Solar System. Planetary bodies are very often pummeled by them. The meteoroids...

 

New results from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show that small meteoroids are breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn’s rings.

Saturn’s rings are the only place besides Earth, the moon, and Jupiter where researchers along with amateur astronomers have been able to observe impacts as they happen, as this new observations show.

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