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Phoebe a KB object captured by Saturn

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Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Saturn's battered little moon Phoebe is an interloper to the Saturn system from the deep outer solar system, scientists have concluded. The new findings appear in the May 5 issue of the journal Nature.


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I imagine this will be the rule for many of the moons once the composition is determined.

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