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Hall Monitors in Outer Space

  • May 12, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Shepherd moons help keep the rings of Saturn, Jupiter, and other planets in line. For example, the gravitational fields of Prometheus and Pandora hold together the particles of Saturn’s skinny F-ring, while Cordelia and Ophelia stop Uranus’s Epsilon ring from flying apart.

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