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Slingshot around Titan is the beginning of the end for Cassini

Slingshot around Titan is the beginning of the end for Cassini

11 September 2017

The Cassini spacecraft is passing by Titan on its final nosedive into Saturn. Plenty has been revealed about Saturn’s largest moon on Cassini’s 20-year mission
Diagram of the shape of a synestia – like a red blood cell or a doughnut

Huge impact could have smashed early Earth into a doughnut shape

25 May 2017

Many rocky worlds may have spent time as a newly named planetary form called a synestia – a loosely connected blob of molten rock and dust with a dented middle

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