By hypothesis,
Professor Eric Asfauga Planetology (Erik Asphaug), Saturn's largest moon was
formed as a outcome of the merger of smaller satellites.
October 19 at the
annual conference in Reno (Nevada, USA), Professor of Planetary Science at the
University of California (Santa Cruz) introduced his new hypothesis that the
largest moon of Saturn - Titan, was formed during a merger of at least half a
dozen smaller Saturnine satellites.
Scientists say that the
system of Saturn's moons were first formed several major satellites, as well as
in the case of Jupiter, the satellite system which was originally formed the
four most basic satellites known as the "Galilean satellites" since
they were discovered by Galileo in 1610.
Galilean satellites of
Jupiter took the 99.998% of the mass of Jupiter's moons. All the other moons of
Jupiter are very small. This planet, unlike Saturn, the satellites do not mean.
Eric Asfaug trying to understand and explain what is the difference of these
two systems.
"We assume that
the giant planets started their own satellites, as well as the Sun started
their own planets. According to our assumptions, there is a strong possibility
that Titan was formed from several medium-sized satellites, each of which
brings a single satellite Titan its weight" - said the scientist.
Recall that the
diameter of Titan is 5,152 km, it is 50% more than that of the moon, and the
Titan is 80% larger than Earth's satellite by weight. Titan also exceeds the
size of the planet Mercury, although it is inferior to the mass. The force of
gravity on it is about one-seventh of the earth. Mass of Titan is 95% of the
mass of Saturn's moons.
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