April 17, 2014

Part of Saturn's ring showing the disturbance at their outer edge caused by Peggy (Photo NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

The Cassini space probe has detected an object at the edge of the planet Saturn’s outermost ring, the one called ring A, that could be a new moon. Informally called Peggy, it may be just forming, a small block of ice with a diameter of less than one kilometer (about half a mile) detectable only by the slight gravitational disturbance that caused on the ring.