Orbiting Frog » Saturn http://orbitingfrog.com/blog Astronomy, Space and Science Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:37:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 If the Earth Had Rings http://orbitingfrog.com/blog/2009/11/23/if-the-earth-had-rings/ http://orbitingfrog.com/blog/2009/11/23/if-the-earth-had-rings/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:02:57 +0000 ttfnRob http://orbitingfrog.com/blog/?p=1882 Someone told me about this video and I tweeted it. Many retweets later I thought I would share it on the blog too. What if the Earth had rings? This video explores how it would look ,not just from space but also from various places on the Earth.

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Tonight, July 5, look west and you’ll see a temporary “Belt of Three Stars”. Saturn, Mars and the star Regulus are sitting by Leo in a chance alignment that literally will only happen tonight. Very cool.

Thanks to the ‘What’s Up’ blog at Discovery for this tip.

Discovery News: What’s Up?: A Line of Planets

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