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So perhaps we are seeing a moonlet coming apart?
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Yes, where are the Cassini scientists on this object?

I understand their need for caution and perhaps they are working
behind the scenes, but leaving the teeming masses in the dark will
only create the very situation they are trying to avoid, namely the
fringe element coming up with all kinds of ideas.

As with NASA TV, mainstream science in general really needs to
promote itself better to the public, and if they don't think it's important
enough, just wait until their budgets dry up due to lack of support.

Here is an image of Daphnis from 2005. Though it is hard to tell the
exact shape of this 5 mile wide moon, Daphnis does not seem to be
cylindrical here:

http://www.planetary.org/explore/topics/saturn/daphnis.html

This paper from December of 2005, which also shows a round moon,
may be of some further help:

http://oldenhuis.info/Reports%20and%20Articles/Daphnis/daphnis.PDF

Again, my guess is Daphnis is being pulled apart. When will Cassini
image the moon again? And will it still be there in any form by then?

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