【正文】 It was kept dar k to make the instruments easier to read, and was as colourful as the inside of a juke box. Cirocco liked it. Green lights blinked and banks of television screens hissed white noise through confetti clouds of snow. Ugene Springfield and the Polo sisters floated around the central holo tank. Their faces were bathed in the red glow. Gaby handed the plates to the puter, punched up an imageintensifying program, and indicated the screen Cirocco should watch. The pictures were sharpene d, bined, then rapidly alternated. Two miniscule dots blinked, not far from each other. There it is, Gaby said proudly. Small proper motion, but the plates are only twenty three hours apart. Gene called to them. Orbital elements are ing in, he said. Gaby and Cirocco joined him. Cirocco glanced down and saw his arm go possessively around Gaby39。s safely above Titan39。d see that. Gaby chewed a knuckle. Yet if it was formed with the others, it ought to be less eccentric. The Polo shrugged. 39。 some of the stops along the way had been outrageous. Now he was worrying her earlobe with his lips and teeth, tugging gently to turn her around. She let it happen. He nudged her shoulder with his chin and nose to get her turning faster. She began to rotate. She feltw what he was doing. She locked her legs around his hips and let him do the moving. Bill was forty, the oldest of the crew, and had a face dominated by a lumpy nose and jowls that could have graced a bassett hound. He was balding and his teeth were not pretty. But his body was lean and hard, ten years younger than his face. His hands were neat and clean, precise in their movements. He was good with machinery, but not the greasy, noisy kind. H is tool kit would fit in his shirt poc ket, tools so tiny that Cirocco wouldn39。re giving me enough reason? she countered, a little breathlessly. But the truth was she had been thinking of how amusing the four of them must have looked to Bill, who had stayed out of the shuffle of bodies. That seemed to be his style, to sit back and let people sort themselves out, then move in when it began to be depressing. Calvin had certainly been depressed. So had Cirocco. Whether from preoccupation with Gaby or just inexperience, Calvin had not been much of a lover. Cirocco thought it was a little of both. He was quiet, shy, and bookish. His records showed he had spent most of his life in school, carrying an academic load that left little room for fun. Gaby just didn39。t know what the problem was with Calvin and Gaby。s Third Law of Motion, the one that used to refer to , action and reaction. Cirocco had done some calculations on the matter, and had found that the force of ejaculation was not nearly enough to account for the asmic acceleration she always observed at that moment. The cause was certainly spasms of the large muscles of the leg, but the effect was beautiful and a little frightening, as though they had bee big, fleshy balloons losing air, forced away from each other at the moment of closest approach. They would careen and carom, and finally e to rest together again. Bill felt it building, too. He grinned, and the hydroponic lamps made his crooked teeth luminescent. PUBIREL DISPATCH 0056 5112125 DSV RINGMASTER (NASA 447D, LS/1, HOUSTONCOPER NICUS GCR BASELINE) IONES, CIROCCO, MISCOM FOR PARAPHRASING AND IMMEDIATE RELEASE BEGINS: Gaby has settled on Themis as the name for the new moon. Calvin agrees with her, though they arrived at the name from different directions. Gaby mentions the alleged sighting of (what would have been) a tenth moon of Saturn by William Henry Picketingdiscoverer of Phoebe, Saturn39。formation, the result of a collision between Rhea and a wandering asteroid. Themis might be the remnant of that asteroid, or a chunk knoc ked off of Rhea itself. So Themis is proving an interesting challenge for that wonderful gang of idiots you all know so well by now, the crew of the D SV Ringmaster. Cirocco leaned bac k from the typer touchplate, stretched her arms over her head, and cracked her knuc kles. Tripe, she muttered. Also bullshit. The green letters glowed on the screen in front of her, still with no period at th。 se e PU BIREL DI SPATCH 0009,113124) and a sixth is called Titan. Themis was a Titan, so Calvin39。t like that much, and the rest of his technique was no better. When he was through making cove, it al most seemed he expected to he thanked. Cirocco had never been easily impressed。t seem to care, either. Cirocco sent out signals that could have drawn her five to We if the FCC had known about them, but Gene wasn39。s charms had not interested Gene, her second choice. Mat are you smiling about? Bill asked. Don39。s tongue had started at Cirocco39。s far from stabilized. Meaning what? Cirocco asked. Captured asteroid? Gaby suggested, one eyebrow raised doubtfully. The proximity to the equatorial plane would make that un likely, one of the Polo sisters said. April or August? Cirocco wondered. After eighteen months together she still couldn39。s affairs. Saturn sat in the middle of the tank, fat and brassy. Eight blue circles were drawn around it, each larger than the last, eac h in the equatorial plane of the rings. There was a sphere on each circle, like a single pearl on a string, and beside the pearls were names and numbers: Mnemosyne, Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, and Hyperion. Far beyond those orbits was a tenth one, visibly tilted. That was Iapetus. Phoebe, the most distant, could not be shown on the scale they were using. Now another circle was drawn in. It was an eccentric ellipse, almost tangent to the orbits of Rhea and Hyperion, cutting right across the circle that represented Titan. Cirocco studied it, then straightened. Looking up, she saw deep lines etched on Gaby39。t see anything without the parometer. That39。我參考了許多 相關(guān)的書籍和文獻(xiàn)資料，例如： １９９６年７月５日第八屆全國人