Saturn's icy moons
medium size were twisted when several much larger satellites crash, forming a
giant moon Titan, states a new study conducted by a team of scientists led by
Eric Asfogom University of California, Santa Cruz.
Initially, in the
Saturn system there exists a family of relatively large satellites known as the
"Galilean satellites" (Ganymede, Europa, Callisto and Io), according
to a new theory. But everything changed after a series of rather large collision
between satellites, which are formed by Titan and was thrown into a huge amount
of space matter that formed satellites such as Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione,
Rhea and Iapetus, the researchers say.
New observations made
by NASA's Cassini, will help astronomers to test the model.
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