Thursday, July 23, 2009

Two demonstrations of gravity from the outer planets

Demonstration 1: The Jupiter gravity well has drawn another asteroid or comet to its doom in the striped and swirling clouds of Jupiter's atmosphere:



Credit: Paul Kalas (UCB), Michael Fitzgerald (LLNL/UCB), Franck Marchis (SETI Institute/UCB), James Graham (UCB)





Demonstration 2: Saturn's moon Pan manipulates the F-ring gravitically:

To see this process in action, as captured by the amazing Cassini mission:

Soft Collision

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