-Dragmire- said:
FalloutJack said:
-Dragmire- said:
That can happen!?
You know, space is neat.
You've heard about the coffee grinds in space thing, right? Even random little bits of matter will start to swirl around other things in accordance to size and orientation, clumping and achieving its own kind of orbits. It's really neat and...I'm surprised this sort of thing doesn't happen more often.
My knowledge of astronomy is quite limited. While I do find it interesting, it wasn't something I actively looked into. With that in mind, my initial thoughts on Saturn's rings was that the debris was almost unchanging, locked in orbit.
Perfectly understandable. As it happens, though, there's always some sort of influence to account for. We push satellites into orbit and they need the occasional adjustment and refueling. So, if they're not locked and the moon
does change its orbit here and there, this would hold true for other worlds. Saturn attracts debris and sometimes has debris fall in it, and I guess in this case some of the debris that was heavy enough got close enough to each other (They're actually separated a relatively large space apart.) to pull together.
