Images snapped by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that Saturn's moon, Phoebe, is not an asteroid but a 4.5-billion-year-old primordial body from the
solar system's outer reaches.
High-definition photographs as well as spectrographic and thermal images taken during Cassini's June 11 fly-by revealed that Phoebe likely is made up
of ice, rock and carbon compounds similar to those seen in Pluto and Neptune's moon, Triton.
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Wow! Looks like this Phoebe contains alot of information from the beginning our solar system. This discovery is all well and good. I am glad that
through all the "stuff" that is happening here on Earth, we have people focused on increasing our knowledge of our universe.
It has got to be useful someday.
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