Has Saturn given birth to a new moon? Cassini probe spots strange object at the edge of planet's rings . Professor Carl Murray named the object Peggy after his mother-in-law
. It is thought to be kilometre in diameter - too small to be a moon
' Experts, however, believe it could be the beginnings of a new moon
. If this is the case, it is being formed due to the build-up of ring material that has collapsed under its own weight
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The thin, outermost ring shown in this picture from the Cassini probe is Saturn's F ring, and the bright dot near it is the moon Prometheus. The thicker white band is the A ring. The smudge near what looks like the tip of that ring was created by PeggyQuoteThe mysterious object, which was located at the right edge of Saturn's A ring, has been named 'Peggy' after Professor Murray's mother-in-law, according to a report by Adam Mann in Wired.
Peggy is thought to be about a 0.6 miles (1km) in diameter, which experts claim is too small for it to be a moon.
It could, however, be the build-up of ring material that has collapsed gravitationally under its own weight.
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QuoteLast year, hundreds of objects up to half a mile in diameter were caught on camera wreaking havoc with one of Saturn's rings. From left to right in the top row, the trails in these images are 18, 85 and 96 miles long. In the bottom row from left to right, the trails are 43, 129 and 32 miles long
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