      
The new belt lies at the far reaches of the Saturnian system, with an orbit tilted 27 degrees from the main ring plane. The bulk of its material
starts about six million kilometers (3.7 million miles) away from the planet and extends outward roughly another 12 million kilometers (7.4 million
miles). One of Saturn's farthest moons, Phoebe, circles within the newfound ring, and is likely the source of its material. Saturn's newest halo is
thick, too -- its vertical height is about 20 times the diameter of the planet. It would take about one billion Earths stacked together to fill the
ring.
This is really cool stuff. They call it the Phoebe ring.
I bet Dr. Burns of Cornell is just yelling, "I told you so!" at his computer screen right now.
SOURCE: www.sciencedaily.com...
[edit on 10/6/2009 by Schmidt1989]
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