Ringmakers of Saturn

Author: Bergrun, Norman R.Binding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 130Release Date: 01-08-1986Details: This is the paperback edition of "Ringmakers of Saturn," commissioned for the 25th anniversary of the release of the original hardback. From 45 plates of photographs taken during the Voyager 1 flight to Saturn in 1980, the reader of this remarkable book sees that one of the photographs shows that the A-ring is incomplete. The author sets out to explain this phenomenon in an understandable form. The famous Cassini and Enke gaps also fit into the author's explanation. The micro-photography employed by the author answers many of the questions about Saturn asked since Galileo. The author further shows a relation to the well-defined crater on the earth's moon called "Mare Orientale," and to the 1908 Tunguska explosion in the U.S.S.R. CREDENTIALS: Dr. Norman Bergrun is an alumnus of Ames Research Laboratory, NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) predecessor of Ames Research Center