Friday, May 06, 2005

Phoebe -- See I told you

See I told you it wasn't an original Saturn Moon!!!! (see earlier post - Wednesday May 4,2005 Saturn Revisited)

"Cassini is showing us that Phoebe is quite different from Saturn's other icy satellites, not just in its orbit but in the relative proportions of rock and ice. It resembles Pluto in this regard much more than it does the other Saturnian satellites," said Dr. Jonathan Lunine, Cassini interdisciplinary scientist from the University of Arizona, Tucson. (Cassini-Huygens website)

Keep in mind they are saying it is Pluto like and indications are that it may be from the Kuiper Belt region.

See.. even this arm chair scientist knew that it wasn't orginally supposed to be there and I pointed it out before the scientists did!

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