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  2. Carolyn Porco - Wikipedia

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    Porco was also an adviser on the 2009 film Star Trek. The scene in which the Enterprise comes out of warp drive into the atmosphere of Titan, and rises submarine-style out of the haze, with Saturn and the rings in the background, was Porco's suggestion. [38] [39] Porco was a guest on the BBC's Stargazing Live Series 4 in January 2014.

  3. J1407b - Wikipedia

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    The name J1407b follows the exoplanet naming convention by adding the letter "b" after the host star's name. [5] At the time of J1407b's discovery, V1400 Centauri was known as "J1407", which is the shortened form of the star's full SuperWASP catalogue designation 1SWASP J140747.93–394542.6.

  4. Rings of Saturn - Wikipedia

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    A failed photopolarimeter prevented Voyager 1 from observing Saturn's rings at the planned resolution; nevertheless, images from the spacecraft provided unprecedented detail of the ring system and revealed the existence of the G ring. [28] Voyager 2 ' s closest approach occurred in August 1981 at a distance of 41,000 km (25,000 mi). [27]

  5. Ring system - Wikipedia

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    Fainter planetary rings can form as a result of meteoroid impacts with moons orbiting around the planet or, in the case of Saturn's E-ring, the ejecta of cryovolcanic material. [6] [7] Ring systems may form around centaurs when they are tidally disrupted in a close encounter (within 0.4 to 0.8 times the Roche limit) with a giant

  6. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    Star Trek: The fictional metal duranium is referred to in many episodes of Star Trek as extremely hard alloys used in starship hulls and hand-held tools. Dureum Lensman: The fictional synthetic metal dureum has a higher moment of inertia than regular materials. It takes more work to move or stop moving than other objects of the same mass. Dust RWBY

  7. List of Star Trek characters - Wikipedia

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    Abbreviation Title Date(s) Medium TC "The Cage" (Star Trek: The Original Series) 1966: TV TOS: Star Trek: The Original Series: 1966–1969: TV TAS: Star Trek: The Animated Series: 1973–1974

  8. Star Trek - Wikipedia

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    The Starfleet emblem as seen in the franchise. As early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the science fiction series that would become Star Trek.Although he publicly marketed it as a Western in outer space—a so-called "Wagon Train to the stars"—he privately told friends that he was modeling it on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, intending each episode to act on two ...

  9. Peggy (moonlet) - Wikipedia

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    Peggy is the informal name for a former moonlet in the outermost part of Saturn's Ring A, orbiting 136,775 kilometres (84,988 mi) away from the planet.The moonlet was discovered by the Cassini Imaging Team in 2013 and it may likely be exiting Saturn's A Ring. [1]