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Its Official! Pegasus has a Moon named after it.

Started by starwarp2000, December 13, 2013, 08:08:18 PM

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starwarp2000

Amazing!
All our hard work has payed off. Now they have named a moon after us.

QuoteA rebellious moon might have just popped out of Saturn's rings. Images from a NASA spacecraft show a disturbance along the rings' edge that is probably being caused by an unseen object stirring up the icy bands. The region has since quietened down, suggesting that we may have witnessed the birth of a small moon.

QuoteCarl Murray of Queen Mary University of London and colleagues were looking at pictures of the small moon Prometheus taken by NASA's Cassini orbiter. In an image from 15 April, they noticed an unexpected distortion in the A ring, the outermost of the planet's thick, bright rings.

QuoteMurray nicknamed the unusual object causing the A-ring distortions Peggy, after his mother-in-law, because he analysed the first sighting on her 80th birthday. Peggy could be a moon in the making tugging at the edge of the A ring, he says.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24738?cmpid=NLC|NSNS|2013-1205-GLOBAL&utm_medium=NLC&utm_source=NSNS&

Well, there you go. A moon named Peggy. Who would have thought.  :)
Sit down before fact like a small child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature lead, or you will learn nothing. —T. H. Huxley


Somamech

Nice!. 

Now all we need is some Boffin to make a UFO called  _The Grand Soma Sonic™_  so we can have a holiday there :D

WarToad

Time is the fire in which we burn.