NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted an object located right at the
edge of Saturn's A ring that is confounding scientists. Its name? Peggy,
after astronomer Carl Murray's mother-in-law.
This strange something
was spotted by accident on April 15 when Cassini's cameras were aimed
at a tiny moon named Prometheus that orbits just inside another of
Saturn's rings. A member of the mission's imaging team, astronomer Carl
Murray of Queen Mary University of London, noticed an odd kink at the A
ring's edge that jutted outward.
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