Enceladus spewing ice

[iceman (Mike)]

Great image of Saturn's moon Enceladus spewing ice out into space.. Some of these ice particles would make up Saturn's E ring.

Amazing.. I love Cassini, they do some amazing work back at the lab.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051205.html

[matt]

cool

[h0ughy (David)]

makes you wonder how the universe actually exists sometimes, does that spewing of debris and gas shift the orbit? does it dramatically change the mass of the object, will it speed up or loose velocity??

[Stu]

That's awesome. Could it have been a captured KBO?