Saturn’s largest moon, in particular, seems to have a role to play in Titan Pi.
We know that Saturn’s axis does not rotate vertically (at a 90 degree angle) around the Sun. The gas giant is tilted 27 degrees from our parent star. Astronomers are in it now A new study An explanation was found for the inclination of Saturn. Because the gas giant will fall into the hands of its mane.
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This is not the first time researchers have wondered how Saturn and some other planets in our solar system could tilt slightly. The current theory is that Saturn’s tilt occurred as a result of a change in Neptune’s orbit – about four billion years ago. Since then the axis of rotation of Saturn has been assumed to be stable.
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But this does not seem to be the case, researchers say. Findings indicate that Saturn’s axis is still tilting. What we see today is only a transitional phase of that shift. In the next few billion years, the slope of the gas giant will more than double.
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Who is the ‘culprit’? Then we have to knock on the door of Saturn’s moons. Researchers have now shown that Neptune is not to blame, but Saturn’s tilt. Saturn’s moons seem to be slowly but surely moving away from the gas giant.
Titan
Titan in particular seems to be running away from Saturn. For example, researchers recently discovered it The Moon is moving towards Saturn 100 times faster than expected. This means that Titan is migrating from the gas giant at a rate of 11 cm per year. As Saturn’s moons move away from the gas giant, the planet tilts further.
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Titan is larger than Mercury and is the second largest moon in our Solar System. Titan orbits Saturn, 1.4 billion kilometers from the Sun; Ten times more than the earth. Because the Moon is so far away from the Sun, the surface temperature is -179 degrees Celsius.
Researchers say that Saturn’s inclined position is relatively recent. During the first three billion years after the gas giant was born, its axis of rotation tilted slightly. About a billion years ago, the gradual motion of Saturn’s moons was called the “resonance phenomenon” and continues to this day: Saturn’s axis interacted with the orbit of the distant planet Neptune. It gradually tilted Saturn’s axis of rotation to 27 degrees compared to the Sun.
Incidentally, Saturn is not the only desire to experience this fate. Due to its four major moons, its nearest neighbor, Jupiter, may continue to tilt. Sometimes Jupiter interacts with the orbit of Uranus. This will cause the slope of Jupiter’s axis to increase by three degrees over the next five billion years, resulting in a slope of more than 30 degrees from the Sun.
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