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An interesting "thing" in the 35 km wide Keeler gap around Saturn

Raoul — 5/16/2009 5:45:52 PM (archived)

Looks like a cigar, could be Daphnis.....but what is it? (Released in 2008)

Here's a picture of Daphnis, also in the Keeler gap:

An animation:

Explanation

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• An interesting "thing" in the 35 km wide Keeler gap around Saturn - Raoul - 5/16/2009 5:45:52 PM
  • Two likely end-members - nick hoffman - 5/17/2009 4:52:52 AM
    • uhhh he said MEMBER (n/t) - lance - 5/19/2009 4:02:27 AM
    • re: Two likely end-members - ER - 5/17/2009 11:40:42 AM
      • An example of emergent order out of Chaos. - ER - 5/17/2009 2:43:57 PM
      • Try a FRACTAL avalanche... - nick hoffman - 5/17/2009 11:51:42 AM
  • "Explanation"? - Robert - 5/16/2009 7:34:50 PM
  • Finally! Justification for manned mission to Saturn! - ER - 5/16/2009 6:24:52 PM
    • Camera movement..? - Raoul - 5/16/2009 7:30:21 PM
  • Um...are there three of them? (n/t) - TB - 5/16/2009 6:05:17 PM
    • Or is it emitting Whale sounds LOL! - REB - 5/18/2009 1:20:55 PM
    • re: Um...are there three of them? - Raoul - 5/16/2009 7:33:04 PM
      • "elongated thing" - Robert - 5/16/2009 7:37:29 PM
        • Ramalammadingdong, or, the Kirkwood Derby? - ER - 5/16/2009 9:53:59 PM
        • Saturn's worlds - Raoul - 5/16/2009 7:50:55 PM
          • Why is the assumption that it is an actual cylinder? - Socrates II - 5/17/2009 4:04:49 PM
            • Perhaps it's a dumbbell - podrock - 5/18/2009 3:00:08 AM
            • We're just having fun with it. - TB - 5/17/2009 7:59:58 PM
              • The wake waves are not blurred - Nick Hoffman - 5/18/2009 4:09:48 AM
                • re: The wake waves ARE blurred - Nick Hoffman - 5/20/2009 3:22:29 AM
                  • re: The wake waves ARE blurred - TB - 5/20/2009 6:08:22 AM
                    • Tom, can you point to those later images? - Socrates II - 5/20/2009 1:21:44 PM
                • If there really is something weird there... - TB - 5/19/2009 4:45:55 PM
                  • So perhaps we are seeing a moonlet coming apart? - Socrates II - 5/19/2009 6:16:48 PM
                • True... but - Adam - 5/18/2009 7:51:34 AM
            • Being inside the rings - Raoul - 5/17/2009 5:07:57 PM
            • Good points, hemlock man. - ER - 5/17/2009 4:37:26 PM
              • Yes I do - Socrates II - 5/17/2009 6:08:44 PM
                • I think the guys on this thread have done a pretty good analysis - ER - 5/17/2009 6:35:41 PM
                  • Gravity and shape - Adam - 5/18/2009 3:43:39 AM
                    • "too coherent to be just a rubble pile-up" - ER - 5/18/2009 4:26:30 AM
                      • I share your fasination - Adam - 5/18/2009 7:50:24 AM
                        • Off the top of my head... - ER - 5/18/2009 11:31:53 AM
                          • Fair point... - Adam - 5/18/2009 11:56:08 AM
                            • All I can add... - ER - 5/18/2009 1:48:47 PM