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    Ripples in Planetary Rings Are Traces of Decades-Old Cometary Collisions

    Information gleaned form Cassini, Galileo and New Horizons missions seems to indicate that ripples seen in the rings of Saturn and Jupiter were caused by comets. Shoemaker-Levy 9 (famous for a multiplicity of impacts on Jupiter in 1994) left one set of ripples. Saturn's cometary clues date to...
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