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Saturn’s Ring System, Hyperion and Titan May Have Originated in Collision of Two Proto-Moons


In a paper to be published in the Planetary Science Journal, scientists from SETI Institute, Southwest Research Institute, Caltech and the Observatoire de Paris argue that Saturn’s largest moon is not a primordial world, but the result of a dramatic merger between two ancient moons.

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