Saturn Takes It on the Chin

Astronomers have unraveled evidence of meteors striking the ice rings around Saturn. Some are very small, but others leave a debris trail for thousands of miles. The rings are highly impressionable, unlike the gas giant itself, allowing us to see all manner of happenstance around our big brother planet. All this taken from Cassinni.

It just so happens that last night Saturn came close to earth, the closest it will in this rotation, making him highly visible in the night sky.