Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/13

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Subject: [Leica] Saturn
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:52:05 +0930
References: <CAH1UNJ3OXZZ=pWLqob03WW+=NMS7Ert2p_1yPqdFrpgqZmH=tg@mail.gmail.com>
 
The rings of Saturn consist of ice crystals and probably meteorite
particles describing circular orbits around the planet's equator. In all
likelihood these are fragments of a former moon that was too close to the
planet and was destroyed by its tidal effect (?Roche limit).

Brockhaus Encyclopaedia

Cited in W.G. Sebald 'The Rings of Saturn'**


On Friday, 13 September 2013, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

> http://gizmodo.com/saturn-looks-simply-stunning-from-cassini-1306120883
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
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