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The Cassini Spacecraft has caught a very nice picture of a Shepherd Moon in action. These are small, moon like bodies amid the saturnian rings, their larger gravity pulls on the crumb to melon sized debris that makes up the ring, and shepherds the ring material into shape. In the picture, Prometheus has just grazed the visible F ring, and as is evident in the photo, perturbed the material, creating that razor-feature in the picture.
Pretty keen.
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Are you saying that the little white blip helps pull all the detritus crap into a ring shape?
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Pretty much yeah, their gravity helps keep the smaller chunks from just flying off.
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I have to scratch my ass that just had diarhea.
Not available – information on this topic, something about Satern.
I think you are off be a planet or two; maybe Uranus?
I had no idea that Satern was a celestial body. Saturn perhaps? I’m not going to touch Uranus with a 10 foot pole.
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Old Man said: Are you saying that the little white blip helps pull all the detritus crap into a ring shape?
No senior, the white blip grazed the ring and created that white slash-like line across the ring.