Saturn's rings are disappearing, study says

Posted by sanj on Friday December 21, 2018 @06:46AM
from the cbc.ca dept.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/saturn-rings-1.4954045

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Re:Saturn's rings are disappearing, study says by entity345 on Friday December 21, 2018 @07:43AM (#18732968)

If the rings of Saturn are 'young', 100 million years old or younger (as mentioned in the article) then maybe, just maybe, there might be a relation between them and the dinosaurs' extinction 65 million years ago...

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Re:Saturn's rings are disappearing, study says by eurticket on Friday December 21, 2018 @08:47PM (#18738354)

so like that slingshot equation they use in every space movie?

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Re:Saturn's rings are disappearing, study says by entity345 on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:31AM (#18739997)

I believe my comment deserves respect.

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Re:Saturn's rings are disappearing, study says by peach on Saturday December 22, 2018 @04:20PM (#18742507)

Granted

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Re:Saturn's rings are disappearing, study says by warent on Friday December 21, 2018 @09:09PM (#18738448)

I would have been more surprised if the study concluded Saturn's rings were not disappearing. Not to be a smartass but is this really surprising? I'm not an astrophysicist but as far as I know debris in space either collects and combines, or it decays.

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