Re: [meteorite-list] Saturn's Rings May be Old Timers

2007-12-20 Thread mexicodoug
Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:28 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Saturn's Rings May be Old Timers Hi All: This idea is not new. Don Davis et al. published a similar model more than 20 years ago

[meteorite-list] Saturn's Rings May be Old Timers

2007-12-19 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-149 Saturn's Rings May be Old Timers Jet Propulsion Laboratory December 12, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - New observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicate the rings of Saturn, once thought to have formed during the age of the dinosaurs,

Re: [meteorite-list] Saturn's Rings May be Old Timers

2007-12-19 Thread lebofsky
Hi All: This idea is not new. Don Davis et al. published a similar model more than 20 years ago. It is also interesting how similar the artist concept of the rings in the article is to one done by Bill Hartmann something like 30 years ago. It would be nice if people gave credit where credit was