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Old 04-May-2007, 05:36 AM
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Originally Posted by EDG_ View Post
With Saturn's ring plane crossings occur, we use that time to look for faint new moons don't we? Wonder if anyone was looking at Uranus for any during its ring-crossing...
We used to, but now with Hubble we don't have to wait for the "dark of the rings" to do this. What I had in mind was phenomena such as back-scattering of the rings and the like.

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