Get the latest Science News and Discoveries
An Ancient Merger Could Have Created Titan and the Debris Created Saturn's Rings
New research presents a timeline for recent (astronomically speaking) events in the Saturnian system. It shows that Titan collided with a proto-Hyperion, and the collision smoothed Titan's surface while some of the debris accreted onto a new Hyperion and also created Saturn's rings. The research can also explain some of the Saturnian system's other unusual characteristics.
None
Or read this on Universe Today
