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EditorDavid @ Slashdot 1 place · today 03:36 EDT

Does a New Theory Finally Explain the Mysteries of the Planet Saturn?

"Saturn and some of its 274 moons are pretty weird," writes Smithsonian magazine:

[Saturn moon] Titan has strangely few impact craters, Hyperion is tiny and misshapen, and Iapetus has a tilted orbit. What's more, planets tend to wobble along their rotational axes as they spin, like an off-kilter spinning top in the moments before it topples over. Formally called precession, scientists have long thought that Saturn's wobble rate should match Neptune's because they're probably gravitationally linked. However

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