Saturn’s moon Titan may possibly be doomed to fly away or smash into the earth
Saturn’s largest moon Titan has an outsized effect on the planet’s tilt, and its outwards migration could knock the planet onto its facet and doom Titan itself.
Titan is moving absent from Saturn at a level of about 11 centimetres per 12 months. That isn’t way too weird – Earth’s moon is migrating absent from our planet way too, at a fee of just under 4 centimetres for every year – but it is unexpectedly rapidly. As Titan’s orbit moves further from Saturn, …
Saturn’s largest moon Titan has an outsized effect on the planet’s tilt, and its outwards migration could knock the planet onto its facet and doom Titan itself.
Titan is moving absent from Saturn at a level of about 11 centimetres per 12 months. That isn’t way too weird – Earth’s moon is migrating absent from our planet way too, at a fee of just under 4 centimetres for every year – but it is unexpectedly rapidly. As Titan’s orbit moves further from Saturn, …