It came from outer space. Saturn’s outlier moon Phoebe didn’t coalesce from material near the ringed planet but instead was captured from the distant Kuiper belt, a reservoir of frozen bodies beyond Pluto. The Saturn-orbiting Cassini telescope has found new evidence for that scenario.
Astronomers have long considered Phoebe to be an oddball.
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