Submission + - Saturn's Moon Spawning Moonlets (discovery.com)
astroengine writes: "For the first time ever, astronomers have witnessed the formation of celestial objects... in Saturn's rings. As the Saturnian moon Prometheus dashes through the gas giant's rings, it leaves large formations of ice behind, some as large as 12 kilometers in diameter. When the small moon makes another pass, it is not known whether these giant "snowballs" remain or get destroyed, but according to Linda Spilker, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: "You can think of Saturn's rings as miniature versions of the disks where planets form. The same physical processes are occurring.""
