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Chrysalis (hypothetical moon)

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mission. The moon would have been torn apart by Saturn's tidal forces, somewhere between 200 and 100 million years ago. Up to 99% of the moon's mass would have been swallowed by Saturn, with the remaining 1% forming the
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Wisdom, Jack; Dbouk, Rola; Militzer, Burkhard; Hubbard, William B.; Nimmo, Francis; Downey, Brynna G.; French, Richard G. (September 16, 2022).
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Charnoz, Sébastien; Morbidelli, Alessandro; Dones, Luke; Salmon, Julien (February 2009).
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of a butterfly, with the rings of Saturn representing its emergence from the chrysalis.
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Chrysalis was hypothesized to be similar in size and mass to
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during a close encounter with Saturn by its parent planet's
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Rings of Saturn § Formation and evolution of main rings
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Listed in approximate increasing distance from Saturn
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Chrysalis (moon)
astronomy
Solar System
hypothetical
moon of Saturn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cassini–Huygens
rings of Saturn
Iapetus
Titan
resonance
Neptune
eccentricity
torn apart
gravitational force
pupa stage
Rings of Saturn § Formation and evolution of main rings
"Saturn's rings could have come from a destroyed moon named Chrysalis"
"Loss of a satellite could explain Saturn's obliquity and young rings"
Bibcode
2022Sci...377.1285W
doi
10.1126/science.abn1234
hdl
1721.1/148216
PMID
36107998
S2CID
252310492
"Did Saturn's rings form during the Late Heavy Bombardment?"

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