The Vanishing Rings of Saturn


	The Vanishing Rings of Saturn

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3-19-2008 11:54 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/466ca367-a2d2-4587-835b-c93c19534934/AD1B1260-4014-4B5E-A0F0-CB6DE50FB509/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/18mar_saturn.htm?list157664" href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/18mar_saturn.htm?list157664" style="font-size: 11px;">science.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/18mar_saturn.htm?list157664"><FONT size="4"> The Vanishing Rings 
                    of Saturn</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/18mar_saturn.htm?list157664"><STRONG>March 
                    18, 2008:</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/18mar_saturn.htm?list157664"><P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Saturn: jewel of the solar system, taker 
                    of breaths, ringed beauty. Even veteran astronomers can't 
                    help but gasp when they see her through a small telescope.</FONT></p> <P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Red 
                    Alert: Saturn's rings are vanishing.</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/18mar_saturn.htm?list157664"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/science.nasa.gov/img/F7EF3634-F11D-4319-9AB0-7306E272A2B9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/18mar_saturn.htm?list157664"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"The 
                    rings have narrowed considerably in the last year," he 
                    reports. "The Cassini division (a dark gap in the rings) 
                    is getting hard to see." </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/18mar_saturn.htm?list157664"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Four 
                    hundred years ago, the same phenomenon puzzled Galileo. Peering 
                    through a primitive spy glass, he discovered Saturn's rings 
                    in 1610 and immediately wrote to his Medici patrons: "I 
                    found another very strange wonder, which I should like to 
                    make known to their Highnesses…." He was dumbfounded, 
                    however, when the rings winked out little more than a year 
                    later.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/18mar_saturn.htm?list157664">we're experiencing a "ring 
                    plane crossing." As Saturn goes around the sun, it periodically 
                    turns its rings edge-on to Earth—once every 14-to-15 years. 
                    Because the rings are so thin, they can actually disappear 
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