Two-moon crash may have birthed Saturn's rings
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A new Planetary Science Journal preprint argues Saturn’s young rings and Titan’s odd orbit could come from a past collision between two proto-moons, which produced Hyperion and destabilized inner moons; the Dragonfly mission to Titan (2034) may help test this scenario with fresh data.
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