Interesting how we couldn't see it because well, we weren't looking for it. On the CNN article it says that its the reason one of the moons whs black on one side and white on the other. Let that be your last battlefield, natch!
Saturns new ring!
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I just saw this on Space.com, the thing is huge. The article said it's bout 12.5 times the average distance between the Earth and the moon in width and 6 times that distance in thickness and oribts about 8 million miles from Saturn. I can just imagine what it would look like if the particles were larger in size. Makes me wonder if Pluto might have a ring.
Quite an amazing find. 
And it really does appear massive... 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8291905.stm - the BBC's take on the story.
And it really does appear massive... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8291905.stm - the BBC's take on the story.
I love it when new stuff like this is discovered, we had no idea it was there, just imagine how much other stuff in our own solar system is there that we don't even know. As equipment becomes more advanced we'll discover more and more stuff, exciting stuff. I want to be in that field, finding new stuff.
Pluto has hardly enough pull to hold on to its own moon, let alone particulate matter many times it's radius away.
I think it was hypothesized that it existed due to said dust on one of the moons, which was confusing scientists.
Wikipedia probably had some drunk college kid do it before it was confirmed as fact anyway...
Like the time one of the GA's in my old department made up an entirely fictional civil war soldier and, two days later, said that someone had written a report on the character for a class.
the ring is supposedly as wide as the moon appears in the night sky
so if we could see it, it would be as wide as the moon
that's pretty huge
Very interesting indeed. I have to agree with a previous post, it makes one wonder what else we may find in our own backyard, once the tech. is there.
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