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Saturn's retrograde renegade

Publication date: 06 May 2005

Authors: Dalton, J.B.

Journal: Nature
Volume: 435
Page: 33
Year: 2005

Copyright: Nature Publishing Group

Data from the Cassini-Huygens mission provide convincing evidence that the saturnian moon Phoebe formed elsewhere in the Solar System, and was only later captured by Saturn's gravitational pull.

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