Sentences with phrase «rotating icy rock»

Saturn's rings might have formed when it ate a rotating icy rock that passed too close.

Not exact matches

Because the icy moon is not perfectly spherical — and because it goes slightly faster and slower during different portions of its orbit around Saturn — the giant planet subtly rocks Enceladus back and forth as it rotates.
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