Origin of the saturn system

Saturn from Cassini-Huygens

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 55-74

  Johnson, Torrence V ^a   Estrada, Paul R ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

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