Show #16: Ringworld Around The Collar

By Aaron on July 5, 2005 at 11:28 pm | In Slacker Astronomy Archival Podcasts |

Castdate: 050705
Title: Ringworld Around the Collar
Written By: Aaron
Disembodied Voices: Pamela and the Phantom Australian (Travis is on vacation this week)
Subjects: Saturn, rings, atmospheres, chitlins and boiled peanuts

• Transcript
• BBC News Story
• Oxygen Ions Observed Near Saturn’s A-Ring paper abstract
• The Discovery of Oxygen Kα X-Ray Emission from the Rings of Saturn abstract
• Saturn’s A-ring Ionosphere as Observed by the Cassini Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer
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• Alphabet Soup of Saturn’s Rings from the Planetary Society
• Cassini Photo Contest

One of Aaron’s favorite painters is Francisco Goya. Here is one of his more lighthearted pieces titled Saturn Devouring His Son. Better his son and not our Sun!

Anyone want to redraw this as “Saturn Devouring His Rings”?