Cosmic disturbance: The mystery of Titan's shifting orbit (www.earth.com)
from cm0002@lemmy.world to astronomy@mander.xyz on 14 Feb 2025 06:06
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very_well_lost@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 2025 18:22 collapse

The study suggests that some event within the last 350 million years altered its trajectory, preventing it from settling into a circular orbit.

That’s within the current best estimates for the age of Saturn’s ring system… maybe the same catastrophic event that formed the rings is also responsible for the anomaly in Titan’s orbit?