Did you see this? It's an artist's conception of how gravity from the tiny moon Daphnis creates ripples in Saturn's rings - created by Kevin Gill of NASA.

This image was pretty popular here, and elsewhere on the web - but people often don't come out and say from the start that it's not a photo. The actual photos are less beautiful but... hey, they're real! And the ripples look different in the photos. Let's take a look.

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@johncarlosbaez

are there clues here about how we could shepherd our Low Earth Orbit debris?

@benh - great question! I bet some experts on celestial dynamics and/or spacecraft could tell us if people have thought about that.

It may be that gravitational shepherding is a rather slow process and people are too impatient to use that method.