Cosmos:elementary | Anomalies in the Solar System: Iapetus @Cosmos_elementary | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
There are lots of unusual objects, features and processes in the Solar System that don’t yet have complete explanations. Today we are going to talk about one such weird object: the moon of Saturn - Iapetus.

My video on Submoons
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https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2018/pdf/1356.pdf
space.com/40653-saturns-weird-moon-shapes-explained.html
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