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Is Saturn Making a New Moon?
A 750-mile (1,200-km) -long feature spotted on Saturn’s A ring by Cassini on April 15, 2013
Congratulations! It’s a… moon? A bright clump spotted orbiting Saturn at the outermost edge of its A ring may be a brand new moon in the process of being born, according to research recently published in the journal Icarus.
“We have not seen anything like this before,” said Carl Murray of Queen Mary University in London, lead author of the paper. “We may be looking at the act of birth, where this object is just leaving the rings and heading off to be a moon in its own right.”
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/111233/is-saturn-making-a-new-moon/
Call the Moon Immanual Veliovsky?
YEah ok…Balck and White pic will tell us that….moron!