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Re:Two New Satellites for Jupiter by askvictor on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:11AM (#14505194)
Aren't Saturn's rings hypothesised to have come about from moons smashing or disintegrating?
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Re:Two New Satellites for Jupiter by neuroid on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:40AM (#14505391)
There is another theory suggesting otherwise [1]:

Saturn’s mid-sized moons are like the monsters in late-night horror movies. Smash them into tiny pieces, and they glue themselves back together as new versions of the old moons. This new finding contradicts a theory that Saturn’s rings were caused by moons colliding.

[1]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2132906-saturns-moons-c...

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