Moons Inside Saturn's Rings?

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Topic: Moons Inside Saturn's Rings?

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posted November 17, 2004 02:53 PM

"...A trio of new observations suggests several tiny, unseen moons orbit Saturn and control the shape of its rings.

One study found strong evidence for a small moon, likely just a few miles wide, creating patterns at the edge of a gap that are identical to features at another ring boundary generated by a larger, known moon..."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=96&e=1&u=/space/20041116/sc_space/hintsofunseenmoonsinsaturnsrings

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