moonlets

The complex Saturn system has 61 known moons plus hundreds of 'moonlets' concealed within its rings.

Home | Mail Online 2009

A new model suggests moonlets may have once occupied the two Earth-Moon Lagrangian points, regions in space where the gravitational tug of the Earth and the Moon exactly cancel each other out.

Multiple Moons? » Fanboy.com 2008

The mining team had chosen it for its size and composition, out of an eight-cubed of similar moonlets.

I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

Maybe the strange gravitational phenomena due to embedded or shepherding moonlets is indicative of similar ring dynamics of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune.

Amazing Ring Ripples | Universe Today 2009

The complex Saturn system has 61 known moons plus hundreds of ‘moonlets’ concealed within its rings.

Amazing Close-up Photos of Saturn | Impact Lab 2009

They are caused by moonlets as large as the Great Pyramid.

Saturn’s Rings Hide ‘Sunflowers’ and Extra Bulk | Impact Lab 2007

Surveillance satellites travel in highly eccentric orbits; they are not artificial moonlets so much as artificial comets.

The blue haze of distance superversive 2006

The space probe Cassini has moved among Saturn's moons, moonlets and spectacularly intricate system of rings for the past six months, and last Friday it penetrated Saturn's most perplexing mystery: its biggest moon, Titan, whose surface has been hidden beneath thick clouds ever since Galileo first set eyes on it.

Periscope 2007

The space probe Cassini has moved among Saturn's moons, moonlets and spectacularly intricate system of rings for the past six months, and last Friday it penetrated Saturn's most perplexing mystery: its biggest moon, Titan, whose surface has been hidden beneath thick clouds ever since Galileo first set eyes on it.

PERISCOPE 2007

In the maze of dust-walls and drifting asteroids and moonlets, there had to be a way of avoiding the pirates.

The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004