Orbital Periods of Saturn's Moon Janus Converted to Musical Notes (IMAGE)

University of Toronto

Orbital Periods of Saturn's Moon Janus Converted to Musical Notes

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The orbital periods of the six 1st order resonances of Janus that affect the ring system. The 1:1 resonance is with Janus' co-orbital moon Epimetheus. The corresponding frequencies of these resonances were scaled up by 23 octaves by astrophysicists at the University of Toronto, producing a musical scale.

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Credit: SYSTEM Sounds/NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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