Saturn's Moons Built From Ring Material

LiquidCoooled writes "Two of Saturn's small moons look eerily like flying saucers, new observations by the Cassini spacecraft reveal. The moons, which lie within the giant planet's rings, may have come by their strange shape by gradually accumulating ring particles in a ridge around their equators."

Ring Material

[CaseyB]

Saturn's moons are made of Scrith?

Re:Actually relevant

[Anonymous Coward]

Bush had been claiming for a significant period of time that there was no ring dust on those moons.
This finding just shows what a big liar Bush is.
He is such a big liar that he even claims to have been speaking English to the American people these many years. He has, in fact, been speaking Etruscan. The impedence mismatch between the two languages explains the rather inept speeches Bush delivers.

Re:Ring Material

[OK PC]

Is Niven the guy who ripped off Halo?

(I kid, I kid!)

Re:Actually relevant

[jav1231]

Bravo..no really...pounding the anti-Bush rhetoric into a completely unrelated thread is awesome...

Okay, Folks, I'll hold him down, someone get his medication ready.

In other news....

[paintballer1087]

Astronomers have determined that the shape of the satellite determines whether it is classified as a moon or not. In an astounding landslide at the latest meeting, it was declared that saucer shaped satellites are to be labeled actual moons, while the spherical satellites are now called pseudo-moons. This in a new spree of reclassifications by astronomers has confused many people.