A new study suggests that Saturn’s large rotational wobble has the same explanation. It hypothesizes that Saturn had an additional moon that enabled gravitational interactions that explains the planet’s large wobble. In the process of those interactions, the moon spun out of orbit, got close to Saturn, and was destroyed, creating the ring material. While the models don’t tell us this is definitively what happened, they can provide some indications of what we need to look for to determine how probable these events were.Read Long Article
