Ringmakers of Saturn Paperback – August 1, 1986

This is the paperback edition of "Ringmakers of Saturn," commissioned for the 25th anniversary of the release of the original hardback.From 45 plates of photographs taken during the Voyager 1 flight to Saturn in 1980, the reader of this remarkable book sees that one of the photographs shows that the A-ring is incomplete. The author sets out to explain this phenomenon in an understandable form.The famous Cassini and Enke gaps also fit into the author's explanation. The micro-photography employed by the author answers many of the questions about Saturn asked since Galileo. The author further shows a relation to the well-defined crater on the earth's moon called "Mare Orientale," and to the 1908 Tunguska explosion in the U.S.S.R.CREDENTIALS: Dr. Norman Bergrun is an alumnus of Ames Research Laboratory, NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) predecessor of Ames Research Center, NASA where he worked twelve years as a research scientist. At Ames, he pioneered the setting of design criteria for airplane thermal ice-prevention and the development of roll stability laws for airplanes, missiles, and rockets. He joined Lockheed Missile and Space Company (now Lockheed Martin), where he was manager of the planning and analysis of flight tests for the Navy's Polaris Underwater Launch Missile System.During his thirteen years at Lockheed, he also served as a senior scientist responsible for analysis of special space-satellite applications. An Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), he is active as a leader in Congressional Visits Day events on Capitol Hill. Credited with numerous awards and citations, including the California Society of Professional Engineers Archimedes Engineering Achievement Award, he is listed in "Who's Who in America," "Who's Who in Science and Engineering," and other reference works. Read more