NASA catches an overview of giving birth to a new moon of Saturn

For the first and perhaps the last time NASA Cassini spacecraft, whose mission is the orbit of Saturn, captured a new pop-up Moon of the planet Jupiter rings. As you know, the birth of the Moon is an extremely rare event, and in the case of Saturn, could never happen again. You see, there is a theory that was used to have a much larger ring system, which led to the formation of many natural satellites of the sixth planet from the Sun. After a huge 62 moons of labour, however, rings are now too exhausted to do more, although they seem always lush greatly. This could be our last opportunity to observe how particles of Saturn's rings formed a natural satellite that comes off of the planet and finally in orbit around it.

Scientists estimate that the newly born, called the Peggy, is only half a meter in diameter. This makes it positively tiny compared to the largest moon, Titan, which has a diameter of 3 200 km, or approximately half of the land. In fact, it is so small that Cassini can even take a decent picture, although NASA plans to watch it more closely when it the probe closer to the outer edge of the rings in 2016. Unfortunately, scientists believe that Peggy does not grow and may be collapsing, the child could never the opportunity to become a legitimate Saturn satellite.

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