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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNearing its end, Cassini delights again
Carolyn Porco @carolynporcoNearing its end, Cassini delights again. Here is 35-km Pan in mind-blowing detail with its unmistakable accretionary equatorial bulge.
Jonathan Aguilar @AggleDetector 3h
@carolynporco accretionary bulge? could you elaborate?
Jonathan Aguilar @AggleDetector 2h2 hours ago
@carolynporco nm i see that you have already https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2006LPI....37.2289P/abstract
Saturns Small Inner Satellites: Clues to Their Origins
Cassini images of Saturns small inner satellites (radii of less than ~100 kilometers) have yielded their sizes, shapes, and in some cases, topographies and mean densities. This information and numerical N-body simulations of accretionary growth have provided clues to their internal structures and origins. The innermost ring-region satellites have likely grown to the maximum sizes possible by accreting material around a dense core about one-third to one-half the present size of the moon. The other small satellites outside the ring region either may be close to monolithic collisional shards, modified to varying degrees by accretion, or may have grown by accretion without the aid of a core. We derived viscosity values of 87 and 20 square centimeters per second, respectively, for the ring material surrounding ring-embedded Pan and Daphnis. These moons almost certainly opened their respective gaps and then grew to their present size early on, when the local ring environment was thicker than it is today.
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2007Sci...318.1602P/abstract
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Nearing its end, Cassini delights again (Original Post)
bigtree
Mar 2017
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randome
(34,845 posts)1. Why, that's no moon. It's Gamera in stasis!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]
Ohioblue22
(1,430 posts)2. it it looks like the giant death pierogi
longship
(40,416 posts)3. I R&K all Carolyn Porco posts.
She's incredible.
Plus, when asked by the NYT why she isn't married, she responded, "I have no high maintenance items in my household; no plants, pets, or husbands."
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)4. No sci-fi production designer could have dreamed that up.
I love space!