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Article: Weekend: Close encounter with Saturn's largest moon; The night sky for October from the Birmingham Astronomical Society.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- September 25, 2004
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Two very different moons will be under the spotlight towards the end of this month. Our own will be the focus of attention on the 28th with a total lunar eclipse in the early hours of the morning. Around the same time but about 900 million miles away, the Cassini spacecraft will make its first flyby of Titan, the largest of Saturn's 31 satellites.
At over three thousand miles in diameter, Titan is the second largest moon in the Solar System. (The biggest is Ganymede, one of Jupiter's inner moons.) Titan is also the only one to possess a substantial atmosphere, ...