The Saturnian system with rings and moons are very well ordered with all larger and smaller moons outside the rings. Only some few really tiny moons are within the ring system itself.
You really havnt read ANY textbooks on astronomy? Well im happy to tell in any case:
I think some of you guys here are fooled by the geometry of the image, the small moons that appear to be below the ringplane are in fact much closer to Cassini.
alan Posts: no
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Posted: January 29, 2005 10:41 PM
Now this is weird. One of the larger moons appears to be inside the f-ring.
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There's no reason why a 'large' (whatever you want to consider large) object couldn't orbit around Saturn inside the ring. It would probably be a rarer event than Saturn capturing an object that then orbited outside the ring, but it still must be possible..
However, if a large object orbited inside the ring, it would create a gap in the ring quite a bit larger than itself.
Halitosis Posts: no
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Posted: January 30, 2005 1:17 AM
By 'inside' I don't mean in the ring, I mean inside the ring's innermost extent. Thus, if the ring stretched from 100000 km to 200000 km away, a moon orbiting at 50000 km would be 'inside' the ring.