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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Saturn ring particles 'fluffy'
The particles that make up Saturn's rings are more like "fluffy" snowballs
than hard ice cubes, as some scientists had previously described them. And these grains have been found to be spinning more slowly than thought, according to new data from the US-European Cassini space probe. More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4217038.stm |
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