Cassini Took One Last Look at a Mysterious Glitch in Saturn's Rings Before It Died. Peggy is something along the edge of Saturn’s ring, a glitch whose source we’ve never seen. Cassini took a last peek at Peggy during its Grand Finale destructive plunge, adding a final piece to the puzzle for future researchers to pore over when trying to understand this mysterious disturbance. Cassini project veteran Carl Murray of Queen Mary University of London recalls his first sighting of the ring glitch, in early 2. He was studying an image of Saturn’s moon Prometheus at the outside edge of the A- ring, deliberately exposed to show the background stars. We saw this kind of bump- glob- feature- object whatever,” he told me last week, during the lunch break of the Cassini final Imaging Team meeting, as we chatted at the Huntington Botanical Gardens near Caltech.“We obviously wanted to know, ‘Was it real?’” said Murray.

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He and his team quickly checked previous images of the area, and now that they knew what they were looking for, they kept finding that strange, stepped- out glitch in the otherwise smoothly- curving edge of the A- ring. Watch Fraternity House Streaming. The day I found it was my mother- in- law’s birthday,” Murray recalled, so he named it Peggy in her honor.

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It seemed appropriate.”Soon, the team’s questions about Peggy expanded: “What is it? Where did it come from? Where is it going?” he explained.

We’ve been tracking it almost ever since.”Murray and his colleagues realized the glitch must be caused by an object embedded in the rings. We’ve never actually resolved the object,” Murray said. All we can do is track the glitch.”Measuring the size of the disturbance, he quickly realized it couldn’t possibly be a solid moon. It would be a massive Titan- size moon,” Murray explained. If a moon that size was there, it would be totally disrupting the ring.” Instead, he figured it must be a dense cloud of dust and debris, possibly encompassing a proto- moon that hasn’t yet broken free as an independent object.

As the mysterious object drifts closer to and farther from Saturn within the rings, it causes the glitch along the outer edge to change speeds. By measuring the speed of the glitch, we can measure the orbital parameters of the object,” Murray explained. Including Peggy in Cassini’s final six images of the Saturn system was partly sentimental, but the spacecraft was also collecting valuable scientific information. Every image we get which should contain Peggy is yet another data point that will help us understand what it is, where it is, where it’s come from, and where it’s going to go even when we’re not around to take images any more,” Murray said. The fact that it’s one of the last images from Cassini is touching, but we’re doing it for science.”But tracking an object when you don’t know what exactly that object is can be tricky.

Cassini’s imaging team has found Peggy time and time again, but not always where and when they expected it. Sometimes you see it, sometimes you don’t,” Murray said with a sigh. This uncertainty made planning the final image tricky. We actually gave Peggy a large margin of error because it’s a bit wayward sometimes.” Adding to the complexity of the shot, Cassini was on the far side of the system, shooting the rings from across the planet. This means the resolution was lower: at 2.

Peggy’s characteristic glitch will only be a few hundred pixels in the image. Murray and his team stayed up late Thursday night waiting for the raw images to download.

They brought everything they needed to analyze Peggy right away, working off nervous energy before joining others in standing vigil for Cassini’s final moments. When I checked in with him via email on Friday, Murray was optimistic but uncertain Cassini had successfully found Peggy one final time, writing, “I would like to think that it is [in] the one that also contains Daphnis,” a tiny moon of Saturn that lies within the Keeler Gap of Saturn’s A- ring, he said, before linking me to the raw image. Kevin Gill stayed up late on Thursday processing Cassini’s final images for release on Friday morning. I couldn’t find Peggy in the data though I’m still looking,” he told me, confirming the glitch is being characteristically difficult to identify. Peggy’s probably there, I just haven’t found exactly where yet.”“I’m used to every day going to the computers when the images come down [to] just look for fun stuff, like Peggy!” explained Murray.

It’s going to take me awhile to get used not getting to see these images every day.”Cassini’s mission is done, and its raw image gallery will never have a new update. But Murray, his postdoc, and the rest of the mission scientists still have fruitful years ahead of them poking through thirteen years of data and trying to understand this beautiful, complex Saturnian system. Perhaps, they’ll even come to understand Peggy a little bit better.

Why Your Team Sucks 2. Miami Dolphins. Some people are fans of the Miami Dolphins. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Miami Dolphins. This 2. 01. 7 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.

Your team: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAYour 2. You guys made the playoffs! Can you believe that? Man, I had completely forgotten about that. Real shock to scroll through the top of the draft order and NOT see this team there. Let’s see what went down once they reached the postseason… JESUS H. CHRIST! Dat’s gotta hoit!

Anyway, that’s placebo QB Matt Moore, who was subbing for nominal starter Ryan Tannehill after Tannehill tore his ACL. As you know already, Tannehill tore that same ligament in a new place during the preseason and is already gone for the rest of 2.

Between Tannehill’s injuries and Moore having his brain atomized, the Dolphins are arguably much crueler to their own quarterbacks than they are to those of the opposition. Your coach: Oh look, it’s offensive guru and “Guy who got a job in the SNL writer’s room because Dad is a billionaire” Adam Gase! Honeymoon’s over, Gasey! You may have coasted into second place last year thanks to second helpings of the Jets and Bills, but now your QB is gone and you had to go begging and pleading for this… Your quarterback: HE’S BACK! But I’m using my whole ass!” Yes, Miami, time for you to drink in the full Jay Cutler experience. Watch in wonder as he takes five minutes to get from the sideline to the huddle! Gaze in awe as he throws the ball at the turf the second he senses his pass protection has broken down!

Marvel at his furious need to be intercepted! It’s all yours for six weeks before he goes down with a vague injury to his pointing finger and stays home to collect checks. Make sure your children are vaccinated for mumps and rubella! Here’s a man who has publicly admitted he’s in lousy shape and only took the job because his wife made him do it.

This is why it’s breathtakingly naïve to assume that Gase can magically conjure the Cutler of 2. AND his TDs, by the way) and had the best passer rating of his career. If you’re a Dolphins fan who is currently in denial—and really, denial tends to be your resting state—you can look at Cutler’s career numbers and Tannehill’s numbers and note that there’s very little dropoff, if any, between the two. Cutler is Tannehill! Tannehill is Cutler! THAT’S NOT ENCOURAGING.

It’s not encouraging when the dude who’s supposed to be your franchise QB can’t post better numbers than the fat naked guy this team had to pull off the street to replace him. It’s not encouraging when Tannehill has all the pocket awareness of a man stricken blind 1. Look at the Dolphins before they were in supposed crisis mode: Cutler isn’t the only reason you are fucked, people. He’s merely a symptom of a greater disease, a disease to which he has not been immunized. What’s new that sucks: Uhhhh, Jarvis Landry is being investigated for battery, so that’s fun. Then he tweeted about the preseason being bullshit, and then there was this: I feel like Dolphins PR purposely leaked that Dolphins PR didn’t force Landry to shut up about his tweet because Dolphins PR DID force Landry to shut up about his tweet. Jordon Cameron retired before he could suffer his 9.

The team also brought in aging linebacker Lawrence Timmons and tight end Julius Thomas, whose career trajectory after leaving Peyton Manning is a steeper drop than El Capitan. Laremy Tunsil apparently doesn’t know how to exit a shower correctly. Here’s a dead Dolphin: What has always sucked: Ndamukong Suh cannot stop kicking people. It really is amazing. He has all the self- control of the President, and he’s gonna get another $1.

Burfict- ing everyone this season. There’s no way that Miami pays to keep Suh around after this season, so I look forward to him not only burning every last bridge in Miami this season, but also stomping on the ashes when he thinks no one is looking.

Also, Jay Ajayi is gonna suck this year. I know it. I can feel it in my loins. No good Dolphins back stays good. After one good year, all of them transform into late- career Bernie Parmalee.

As for this team’s fans… is anyone intimidated by a Dolphins fan, ever? Look at this group of tubby boat captains get into a fight in the stands. Every NFL Sunday, every sports bar on Earth has exactly one Dolphins fan sitting in it, wearing a Marino jersey, looking around for other Miami fans like he’s been frozen out at the school cafeteria. They are the two- dollar bill of the sports bar crowd.

Lemme tell you something, sad Dolphins fan at the bar: No one else is coming. It’s just you. You get to watch Cutler wing it to the Gatorade cooler on third- and- 1. Stephen Ross is America’s most pathetic social climber. That one Hootie song is god awful. Did you know? The Dolphins’ most famous thing in the last 2. Ace Ventura. For everyone around my age, that is basically the only remotely positive connotation the Dolphins have. Watch My Best Friend`S Girl Instanmovie.

By the way, this team DID have a live Dolphin mascot in a stadium fish tank back in the 1. What a bunch of cheap shitbags. Watch Planet Ocean Mediafire. I DEMAND REAL DOLPHINS AND I DEMAND THEY KICK FIELD GOALS WITH THEIR LITTLE DOLPHIN FLIPPERS. Tell me attendance doesn’t triple if that happens. WHO SAYS NO? What might not suck: Honestly?

Cutler’s got a quality butt. I’d be proud to have that butt.

HEAR IT FROM DOLPHINS FANS! Matt: Jay Cutler. Chris: I’ve been begging for the release/disappearance of Tannehill for years and boy did that become the biggest monkey paw wish in history.

Albert: “Jay Cutler had his best season under offensive co- ordinator Adam Gase”**Looks up 2. Chicago Bears. 6- 1. NFC North.**Looks up how the Dolphins did following last playoff appearance (2. AFC East. Looking forward to it. Tyler: A month ago I would have said it’s because Ryan Tannehill was somehow approaching his fourth straight “make or break” season, which made no sense.

Maybe would have added a joke about how Tannehill couldn’t even fully tear his ACL. Ha ha ha! Except.. Now I would seriously give anything to go back to that situation. Eric: The Dolphins suck because somehow I consider beating the Jets and going 1- 1 against the Bills a successful season. Chris: One time I called Randy Mc. Michael “Chris Chambers” to his face by accident, so I’m probably a racist. David: We took John Beck, Chad Henne, and Pat White in consecutive drafts.

Brent: Can’t wait for Brady and Belichick to retire so we can get pummeled in the first round of the playoffs every two years instead of every eight years. Michael: Somehow, last year was the first year in as long as I can remember that the Dolphins didn’t do something inherently embarrassing to draw my ire, even going as far as making the playoffs Fast forward to now and I feel like Jay Cutler’s face looks. Steve: Me (to Dad): So did you see that the Dolphins signed Jay Cutler?

Dad: Yeah I saw that. Mom (Who has never watched an NFL game but has overheard my Dolphins lamentations for years): Doesn’t he suck?

Me: You’re thinking of Jay Fiedler.. David: The Dolphins are like watching an old lady try to save her lap dog from running into traffic and subsequently getting creamed by a semi. This team is a graveyard. Lewis: I grew up relatively close to New Orleans (rural Mississippi) and lived eight of the past 1. San Diego County.

I was given two opportunities to acclimate into a fan base for two other teams by residence proximity, but because of Ace Ventura and Dan Marino, I’ve made a conscious decision to remain a Dolphins fan since childhood.