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Enceladus' icy threat to Cassini

JP

You sure the odds are right? 

Those odds aren't exactly astronomical...

Coat please...

Conway

Lies, Damn Lies and Odds 

How on earth do they calculate the odds of such things? Is there a department at NASA calculating odds.

Shouldn't this story be under Odds and Sods?

Steven Knox

Pendantry 

"The craft is due to pass the Moon next March..."

Unless there's a classified experimental engine on that thing, surely it's due to pass the _m_oon next March...

But hey, who named our moon "the Moon" anyway? You'd think they didn't know there were other ones...Oh.

Anonymous Coward

@Pendantry 

While you're being PEDANTIC, you might want to double check your spelling :)

Pendantry? Is that some sort of science dedicated to the study of necklaces?

Chris Morrison

Odds 

Anyone want a tenner at 500-1 that it crashes?

Phil Hill

Prediction: Jets are an Electrical Discharge Which Will Damage Cassini's Electronics 

I think that these jets are more like an electrical discharge, something like an Aurora, which could damage Cassini's electronics.

Watch this space.........

Anonymous Coward

Electric jets, fountains and plumes 

They certainly don't look like typical volcanic ejecta. Electrical discharge jets seem to have been suggested by others too, try a Google search for "Jets of Enceladus", and also "Fountains in vacuum: Enceladus"