Spitzer's Seven Rings of Saturn

Sources as authoritative as NASA number the rings of Saturn at seven, though recent research discovered another major ring much further out from the planet. This last ring, according to today's CNN story, was just discovered using the Spitzer Space Telescope (no relation to the former New York governor's astral inspiration).  That ring is so far out (3.7 million miles out from the planet), so large (300 Saturns would fit inside it), and so thin (just ice and dust, so thin that it wasn't noticed until now), that it hardly counts in anthropomorphic terms.

The Magical Number is, without a doubt, a thoroughly anthropomorphic quantity.

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Spitzer's Seven Rings of Saturn

Wrongly Counted, Rightly Named "Seven Sacred Pools of Hana"

Kipahulu is a village in Hana on the island of Maui which includes part of the Haleakala National Park. The mostly beautific island of Maui features Seven Sacred Pools inside the park, also known as the "Oheʻo Gulch," but more often referred to as the "Seven Sacred Pools of Hana."

There are more than seven pools, but there's a good reason for the name.

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Wrongly Counted, Rightly Named "Seven Sacred Pools of Hana"