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NASA telescope discovers giant ring around Saturn

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9B5V2G80&show_article=1&catnum=0

"Astronomers have long suspected that there is a connection between Saturn's outer moon Phoebe and the dark material on Iapetus," said Hamilton. "This new ring provides convincing evidence of that relationship."

"The thin array of ice and dust particles lies at the far reaches of the Saturnian system and its orbit is tilted 27 degrees from the planet's main ring plane"

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