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Re: Planetary Rings around Earth
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- Subject: Re: Planetary Rings around Earth
- From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:56:16 GMT
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>Also, because of the horseshoe orbit of Asteroid 3753, would you say that
>our moon is acting as a 'Shepherd' satellite?
The moon is shepherd to what? Asteroid 3753 does not come that close
to the Earth, and there's no connection to our moon with Asteroid 3753.
The only shepherd moons are around Saturn, and they're shepherding
Saturn's rings:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/saturn/faq.html#shepherd
Ron Baalke
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